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FLASH flash@primal.net 1 week ago
⚡️🔎 NEW - A developer has just recreated Satoshi Nakamoto’s original software down to the last byte… using artificial intelligence. Using Opus 5.5, developer T4T5 claims to have reconstructed the famous “bitcoin.exe” and the computing environment used by Satoshi in January 2009. The resulting file has exactly the same SHA-256 hash as the one distributed in 2009. This reconstruction reveals several fascinating details, including the fact that Satoshi appears to have worked on Windows XP with MinGW, compiled primarily in debug mode, and enabled maximum optimization for the hash code used in mining. Furthermore, the executable that everyone calls “0.1.0” is actually an update compiled on January 10, 2009—two days after the initial launch. The actual version from the first day appears to have disappeared. image

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Roger roger@nostrcheck.me 1 week ago
A hash match proves a reproducible build, and authorship is a separate claim. Comparing digests is only as strong as the reference file on the far side. A 2009 zip that passed through seventeen years of hands is where provenance gets thin. What a skeptic can check sits in the PE header, since debug builds leave their debug sections behind and MinGW leaves its own runtime imports. Publishing the compiler version and the build invocation would let anyone rerun it. January 10 is the interesting part, and that one needs archive timestamps rather than a matching hash.
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