Nakamoto Research

Binary analysis

These are details obtained from analyzing early Bitcoin binaries.

The Bitcoin source code is available, but analyzing the released binaries from a black box perspective can potentially provide extra details like metadata not present in the source code.

Version 0.1.0

Version 0.1.0 was the first Bitcoin release.

bitcoin.exe

bitcoin.exe

• Creation time: 2009-01-10 23:16:00 UTC
• Size: 6440960 bytes
• MD5 307ad86c412c02abeb821afbb900355b
• SHA-1 4360d8f13a4b2395805f01fc86f7bd4121bf572d
• SHA-256 fbcac071d92e26d82ec917214e334bd43850c0691f113bab1d4741c9bdd30d2d
• File type: Windows 32 bit EXE
• File magic: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386 (stripped to external PDB), for MS Windows TrID
• Compiler: MinGW (gcc-3.4.5)
• Library: wxWidgets
• Linker: GNU linker ld (GNU Binutils) (2.56s)

PE details:

• Target machine: Intel 386 or later processors and compatible processors
• Compilation timestamp: 2009-01-10 23:16:00 UTC
• Entry point: 4768
• Sections: 6

Sections:

Imports:

• libeay32.dll
• ADVAPI32.DLL
• COMCTL32.DLL
• COMDLG32.DLL
• GDI32.dll
• KERNEL32.dll
• mingwm10.dll
• msvcrt.dll
• OLE32.dll
• OLEAUT32.DLL
• SHELL32.DLL
• USER32.dll
• WS2_32.DLL

Code details:

  
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