version 0.1

Hey, does anyone have the original source code for Bitcoin's first version (0.1) that came out in February 2009? The earliest source tarball I could find on Sourceforge is 0.2.0, and the first commit in the GitHub repo is 0.1.5 alpha. Update: So, Hal sent me two archives of version 0.1.0 (one in rar format and another in tgz, but they're from the same source tree). I put them up on my site: http://www.zorinaq.com/pub/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar http://www.zorinaq.com/pub/bitcoin-0.1.0.tgz Here are the SHA256 hashes: 8b17eb9a5707f2519defda4cdf8d14fa1b8dee630e11e6ef85ff9f5547555b56  bitcoin-0.1.0.rar ce9da46516e3042741224a7f9061e3181a5a4d17abba72b6e82922af3753d756  bitcoin-0.1.0.tgz And the SHA1: ec9ed4ccbc990eceb922ff0c4d71d1ad466990dd  bitcoin-0.1.0.rar 35f83eaa334e0e447ceea77a7cc955a4ccdd1a1d  bitcoin-0.1.0.tgz Lastly, the MD5: 91e2dfa2af043eabbb38964cbf368500  bitcoin-0.1.0.rar dca1095f053a0c2dc90b19c92bd1ec00  bitcoin-0.1.0.tgz

Earlier thread on this topic: how can I get a copy of the original source (0.1.0)?

Maybe you can ask Hal Finney if he has a copy, he was a Sourceforge developer on the project at the time of the genesis block, and before the announcement of v0.1.0's release. Note that versions before 0.2.10 no longer work.

I found 0.1.3 through twobitcoin's linked thread. It purportedly is the same source tarball as 0.1.0, so I have what I needed. Thanks.

I recently found the 0.1 source code on one of my computers. I can send it if you want it, but I'm pretty severely disabled these days, so it may take me a while to respond.

I would love it: m.bevand at gmail.com Take your time, it is not urgent.

Can you pass it on to me when you receive it? milton.corlett@gmail.com

Me too, I can host it. It would be interesting to see if indeed 0.1.0 = 0.1.3 which seems improbable (just putting "v0.1.3" in the comments would change the hash). Apparently 0.1.2 was released with a bug that needed reversion, but it's hard to write Bitcoin history with files (and an entire forum) disappearing from sourceforge. I don't think there will be anything interesting in the code, like the "(c) James L. Smith aka Satoshi" you are seeking.

bitcoin.org should attempt to locate, archive, and host the older versions for posterity.

Thanks a lot, Hal. Diffs: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=vBYdkMhY http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=pbcndUsS (omitting bitcoin.exe for obvious reasons)

I agree, would be nice to see.

I first heard about Bitcoin on Freenet. There still might exist Freepages with old files.

Hal sent me two archives of version 0.1.0 (a rar, and a tgz, both of the same source tree). I uploaded them to my site: http://www.zorinaq.com/pub/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar http://www.zorinaq.com/pub/bitcoin-0.1.0.tgz SHA1: ec9ed4ccbc990eceb922ff0c4d71d1ad466990dd  bitcoin-0.1.0.rar 35f83eaa334e0e447ceea77a7cc955a4ccdd1a1d  bitcoin-0.1.0.tgz MD5: 91e2dfa2af043eabbb38964cbf368500  bitcoin-0.1.0.rar dca1095f053a0c2dc90b19c92bd1ec00  bitcoin-0.1.0.tgz All, please mirror them!

I've got them up too: http://we.lovebitco.in/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar md5: 91e2dfa2af043eabbb38964cbf368500 *bitcoin-0.1.0.rar http://we.lovebitco.in/bitcoin-0.1.3.rar md5: 9a73e0826d5c069091600ca295c6d224 *bitcoin-0.1.3.rar What is more annoying is that all Bitcoin releases before 0.3.24 were just deleted from sourceforge. Why?? Here's Linux 1.0.0 from 1994, they aren't trying to erase their history... (new links updated)

If I was up to something fishy, I would delete either the good versions, or bad ones depending on circumstances.

That's source code for the kernel, right? I removed the old binary releases from SourceForge because it was getting annoying to find things like testnet-in-a-box in that very long list, and also getting hard to see what the latest release was. And with our gitian reproducible build process, the windows/linux binaries for recent releases are deterministically reproducible from the source code. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tags  for the history back to the 0.1.5 release.  Uploading 0.1 to github is a good idea, maybe somebody who knows more about git than I do can suggest the best way to do that.

Yes.

I have a copy up, too!  This is epic!  When I started looking for the antique versions, I was not expecting to actually find them! Thank you Hal!!! Thank you mrb and deepceleron as well! http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/bitcoin-clients/original-bitcoin-source-code-archives/

I too would like a copy of the original source code. If you can email it to me that would be awesome! I'll PM you my email address.

Links were already posted, they are both working, and one of them is posted right above your post: http://we.lovebitco.in/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar http://www.bitcointrading.com/files/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar