historical past – When Satoshi Nakamoto mined his first set of blocks in 2008/2009, it was on Bitcoin core, however was he utilizing Linux or Home windows?

The query appears anectodic however it has an significance when studying the outdated key.MakeNewKey() supply code :

1. At the moment, coinbase transactions of 50Btc have been despatched to a newly generated pubkey at every blocks. As far I can inform, every key have been added to the pockets on the roughly the block’s timestamp.
2. Bitcoin core was utilizing /dev/urandom on Linux however on Home windows even when openssl was requested for safe randomness, the generator needed to be initialized manually every time to a preliminary worth : and within the case of key technology, that worth was set to HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA by Satoshi !

So if I’m not incorrect, this implies coinbases mined by means of utilizing Home windows had weak randomness because the doable values are way more restricted than the secp256k1’s order. In consequence, does this implies he solely used Linux personally ?

The query appears anectodic however it has an significance when studying the outdated key.MakeNewKey() supply code :

1. At the moment, coinbase transactions of 50Btc have been despatched to a newly generated pubkey at every blocks. As far I can inform, every key have been added to the pockets on the roughly the block’s timestamp.
2. Bitcoin core was utilizing /dev/urandom on Linux however on Home windows even when openssl was requested for safe randomness, the generator needed to be initialized manually every time to a preliminary worth : and within the case of key technology, that worth was set to HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA by Satoshi !

So if I’m not incorrect, this implies coinbases mined by means of utilizing Home windows had weak randomness because the doable values are way more restricted than the secp256k1’s order. In consequence, does this implies he solely used Linux personally ?