A resurfaced email sent by Satoshi Nakamoto on July 20, 2009, has renewed scrutiny of an early Bitcoin node. The correspondence began with Nicholas Bohm reporting that Bitcoin software was struggling to establish a connection; Satoshi replied that his own node was also trying unsuccessfully to reach Bohm’s IP address. Researcher Seán Murray suggests the node Satoshi said he was connected to may have belonged to Dustin Trammell, based on an IP address associated with Roadrunner home internet service in Austin, Texas. A second address previously shared by Trammell with Satoshi was also linked to the same service. The evidence remains circumstantial because the email does not identify the node’s owner. The exchange illustrates how small the Bitcoin network was in its first months, when users typically had three to five connections and Satoshi encouraged them to leave their computers running so new participants could connect. Trammell has separately written that Satoshi sent him 25 BTC on January 14, 2009.