68. Satoshi's Last Forum Post: Release of Bitcoin 0.3-19

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Satoshi’s Last Forum Post: Release of Bitcoin 0.3.19

NINETEEN HOURS after the “Hornet’s nest” post, Satoshi writes his last forum post before retreating from “public bitcointalk.org life”. He posted it on. It was his last forum post prior to that made in March 2014 on the p2pfoundation forum.

Added some DoS limits, removed safe mode (0.3.19)

Posted by satoshi, December 12, 2010, 06:22:33 PM

There’s more work to do on DoS, but I’m doing a quick build of what I have so far in case it’s needed, before venturing into more complex ideas. The build for this is version 0.3.19.

- Added some DoS controls As Gavin and I have said clearly before, the software is not at all resistant to DoS attack. This is one improvement, but there are still more ways to attack than I can count.

I’m leaving thelimitfreerelay part as a switch for now and it’s there if you need it.

- Removed “safe mode” alerts “safe mode” alerts was a temporary measure after the 0.3.9 overflow bug. We can say all we want that users can just run with“-disablesafemode”, but it’s better just not to have it for the sake of appearances. It was never intended as a long term feature. Safe mode can still be triggered by seeing a longer (greater total PoW) invalid block chain.

Builds: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.19/

As of March 14, 2014, this is Satoshi’s last post on p2pfoundation on Friday March 7th, 2014:

I am not Dorian Nakamoto

This was in reaction to a magazine’s publication that claimed to have identified Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto as a man living in California with the name of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto.