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Ray Dillinger: 'If I'd Known What We Were Starting' — reflections on reviewing Bitcoin's code

Ray Dillinger's retrospective on his role in Bitcoin's earliest days: reviewing the blockchain code, his division of labor with Hal Finney, and his reflections on Satoshi's integrity — 'He wasn't selling coins, he was giving them away for solving hashes.'

Ray Dillinger interview — early Bitcoin code reviewer recalls Satoshi's design choices

Comprehensive interview with Ray Dillinger by Tim Swanson, marking the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper. Dillinger reveals technical details of his code review, including the famous floating-point discovery and Satoshi's reasoning for using double-precision floats.

The alternative genesis block — Satoshi's pre-release test block from September 2008

SerHack published an analysis of a pre-release Bitcoin genesis block dated September 10, 2008 — discovered in source code Satoshi shared privately in November 2008. The test block had a completely different hash, trivially easy difficulty, and an initial block reward of 10,000 units. The September 10 date coincides with Lehman Brothers announcing $3.9 billion in losses.