Wrote to or replied to

Gavin Andresen

Also appears as gavinandresen, gavin, Gavin

Gavin Andresen became Bitcoin's lead maintainer as Satoshi stepped back in late 2010 and early 2011. This archive shows Satoshi pointing site, list and alert responsibilities toward Gavin in mail with Martti, then telling Mike Hearn the project was in good hands with Gavin and everyone. In 2012 Gavin co-founded the Bitcoin Foundation with other early industry figures, serving as its chief scientist while continuing to guide reference-client releases.

He later stepped back from day-to-day Core maintenance, spent time with MIT's Digital Currency Initiative, and became a polarizing figure over block size policy. In 2016 he publicly entertained Craig Wright's claim to be Satoshi, a claim the wider technical community rejected; access to alert-key related privileges was removed amid that episode. How one weighs those later years depends on whether one sees a steward under impossible pressure or a maintainer who lost the room.

The primary handoff language in this archive does not answer that question. He matters here first as the named successor in Satoshi's own words. The later controversies explain why people still search his name next to this archive. They do not erase the 2010 and 2011 mail that put operational trust in his hands. That later public record is why the name still draws readers to this archive page.

Did Satoshi Nakamoto talk to Gavin Andresen?

Yes. This archive has 3 published emails, and 14 forum posts that quote or address them from Satoshi involving Gavin Andresen, dated from 17 June 2010 to 22 February 2011.

3 published emails · 14 replies · 16 posts immediately after them in a thread · mentioned in 5 · 17 June 2010 to 22 February 2011

Sources

Gavin Andresen on Bitcoin Takeover

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Re: Transactions and Scripts: DUP HASH160 ... EQUALVERIFY CHECKSIG
17 June 2010, 18:46 UTC
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Re: Transactions and Scripts: DUP HASH160 ... EQUALVERIFY CHECKSIG
18 June 2010, 16:17 UTC
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Re: Get 5 free bitcoins from freebitcoins.appspot.com
18 June 2010, 23:08 UTC
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Re: Proof-of-work difficulty increasing
22 June 2010, 16:51 UTC
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Re: IPv6, headless client, and more
27 June 2010, 13:02 UTC
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Re: Major Meltdown
10 July 2010, 13:36 UTC
Mentioned · BitcoinTalk

Bitcoin 0.3.1 released
15 July 2010, 17:05 UTC
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Re: JSON-RPC password
19 July 2010, 16:20 UTC
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Re: JSON-RPC password
21 July 2010, 16:07 UTC
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Re: JSON-RPC password
22 July 2010, 02:34 UTC
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Re: JSON-RPC password
23 July 2010, 17:07 UTC
Mentioned · BitcoinTalk

Faster initial block download (5x faster)
23 July 2010, 18:24 UTC
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Re: JSON-RPC password
23 July 2010, 20:39 UTC
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Re: Warning: don't use -server or bitcoind on a machine where you web browse
24 July 2010, 02:29 UTC
Mentioned · BitcoinTalk

Version 0.3.2.5 -- please test!
24 July 2010, 03:32 UTC
Mentioned · BitcoinTalk

Bitcoin 0.3.3 released -- PLEASE UPGRADE
25 July 2010, 16:55 UTC
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Re: JSON-RPC password
25 July 2010, 21:44 UTC
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Re: JSON-RPC password
25 July 2010, 21:51 UTC
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Re: Having problems specifing -datadir
28 July 2010, 20:58 UTC
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Re: Build error SVN r115 on my Mac: workaround
28 July 2010, 21:23 UTC
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Re: Transaction disappeared in the void...
29 July 2010, 22:08 UTC
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Re: Content-Length header and 500 (was Re: Authentication, JSON RPC and Python)
3 August 2010, 21:26 UTC
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Re: What happens when network is split for prolonged time and reconnected?
3 August 2010, 22:45 UTC
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Re: Who's the Spanish jerk draining the Faucet?
5 August 2010, 17:06 UTC
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Re: latency and locality
7 August 2010, 16:28 UTC
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Re: Where is the separate discussion devoted to possible Bitcoin weaknesses.
11 August 2010, 22:40 UTC
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Re: HTTP status codes from the JSON-RPC api
6 September 2010, 21:21 UTC
Mentioned · BitcoinTalk

Version 0.3.12
7 September 2010, 19:17 UTC
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Re: Bug? /usr/bin/bitcoind ""
19 September 2010, 19:58 UTC
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0.3.13 RC1 for Windows, please test
30 September 2010, 17:04 UTC
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Version 0.3.13, please upgrade
1 October 2010, 00:34 UTC
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Version 0.3.14
21 October 2010, 16:39 UTC
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Re: ERROR - PLEASE HELP ME!
23 October 2010, 18:22 UTC
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Re: Some testing that I did on the testnetwork, my findings.
13 November 2010, 23:25 UTC
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Re: Version 0.3.18
9 December 2010, 15:17 UTC
Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin.org backups
20 December 2010, 18:10 UTC
Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Writing about BitCoin
6 January 2011, 18:31 UTC
Published email · Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: 0.3.20 release : shipped
22 February 2011, 19:49 UTC

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