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161 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lumor 29 Jun freebie \ on: [HM] Forgotten Satoshi Emails Discovered with Nicholas Bohm - The Satoshi Times the_stacker_muse bitcoin BooksAndArticles history

Strangely though, how Satoshi obtained this address from Bohm initially is still a mystery, as it does not appear in the sequence of emails available, before the transfer. Perhaps some of these emails still remain private, or there's a mechanism here unaccounted for, maybe related to the irc room where initial node connections were coordinated.

It's possible that Satoshi saw Bohms public IP address in a join-message on IRC or that he could figure it out from the few nodes on the network + Geo IP. Early versions of the software had "Pay to IP address" functionality (the sending node would ask the receiving node for a bitcoin address). Not sure which span of versions it existed though.

9 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheSatoshiTimes OP 29 Jun

Ya, but the pay to ip addresses were odd, they didn't look like the standard addresses as used by bohm/satoshi in this interaction, but more like:
04376ebbd9581f69375d8135168555dc922fbb4574e499f6add67790b19d9159da0fc7164c1e4ed976aafa7d7a94d6b9f955d0d95eb0d4c2f30edcb24d57c2d3ee

Another reader commented that Satoshi likely got Bohm's address from an attached picture file of his interface, which seem probable. We don't have the contents of those attachments though to verify this. Only that there were attachments on these emails.