Hi!

I need some help as I'm trying to understand what was happening to Bitcoins at the very beginning, namely in the period 2009-01-25 (when v.0.1.3 was released) until 2009-11-22, when the Bitcoin forum started.

From the Bitcoin blocks (<30000) the difficulty was still unchanged, so it seems that very few people were mining Bitcoins with their CPUs, probably less than 5 people?

But what I'd like to know is what was happening to Nakamoto and the code, wasn't there some email correspondence with developers? Like Martti Malmi and others? Ten months is so much, but still it seems there is no information about that period.

Any reference/link would be deeply appreciated.

Nicola