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title: 'Re: A few thoughts...'
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date: 2009-01-16 18:42:18
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grand_parent: Emails
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parent: Dustin Trammel
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nav_order: 5
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# Re: A few thoughts...
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The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world.
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{: .fs-6 .fw-300 }
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```
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From satoshi@vistomail.com Fri Jan 16 18:42:18 2009
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Return-Path: <satoshi@vistomail.com>
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Delivered-To: dustintrammell-dtrammell@dustintrammell.com
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Received: (qmail 2400 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2009 18:42:18 -0000
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Received: from anonymousspeech.com (HELO mail.anonymousspeech.com)
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(124.217.253.42) by oaklabs.net with SMTP; 16 Jan 2009 18:42:18 -0000
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Received: from server123 ([124.217.253.42]) by anonymousspeech.com with
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MailEnable ESMTP; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:42:14 +0800
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MIME-Version: 1.0
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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:41:48 +0800
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X-Mailer: Chilkat Software Inc (http://www.chilkatsoft.com)
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X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
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Subject: Re: A few thoughts...
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Content-Type: text/plain
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From: "Satoshi Nakamoto" <satoshi@vistomail.com>
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Reply-To: satoshi@vistomail.com
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To: dtrammell@dustintrammell.com
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Message-ID: <CHILKAT-MID-11ee8d86-843d-4e12-2946-85e68444a44c@server123>
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X-Evolution-Source: pop://dustintrammell-dtrammell@mail.oaklabs.net/
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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> One thing that came to mind on this topic is the potential for BitCoin
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> loss if you have a system failure. The application doesn't seem to
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> store any data in the directory that it runs in, so I assume it's stored
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> in the registry and other places (haven't cracked out ProcessExplorer
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> yet to check myself), so it may be a good idea to have the application
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> be able to export everything that it needs for recovery to a file that
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> could be backed up off of the system.
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The files are in "%appdata%\Bitcoin", that's the directory to
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backup. The data is stored in a transactional database DBM, so
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it should be safe from loss if there's a crash or power failure.
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%appdata% is per-user access privilege. Most new programs like
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Firefox store their settings files there, despite the headwind of
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Microsoft changing the directory name with every Windows release
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and being full of spaces and so long it runs off the screen.
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> One other thing I noticed today is that if you close the application it
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> doesn't appear to cleanly close it's network sockets (TCP RST's start
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> flying). Probably an item for the low-priority todo list (:
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Just now added code to the next release for that.
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Satoshi
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```
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