Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — Initial Questions
Mike Hearn suggests clearer wording for the block count display and asks about plans for a marketplace to give users something to do with mined bitcoins.
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Mike Hearn suggests clearer wording for the block count display and asks about plans for a marketplace to give users something to do with mined bitcoins.
Peter Todd's very first post on BitcoinTalk, made one minute after registering under the username 'retep.' A single sentence offering to buy a Diaspora social network invite for $2 — notably in USD, not BTC, unlike other buyers in the thread who offered 0.5–2 BTC. Three days later, his second post would be a technical reply to Satoshi Nakamoto's description of transaction replacement.
Satoshi explains his most detailed merged mining proposal, reveals the abandoned eBay-style marketplace feature, and clarifies that alternative chains are completely independent with shared miners.