Documents

Everything this lab publishes as prose, in one place.

These were all reachable by URL before this page existed — and by nothing else. A document nobody can navigate to is published in the same sense that a hash nobody can fetch is cited: technically true, practically not. The runbooks are the ones that mattered most, because they are the instructions for reproducing the work rather than taking it on trust.

Run it yourself

Plain-language runbook Run the real 2009 Bitcoin yourself. Start here if you start anywhere.
Build steps you can actually run Rebuild the period binary from source, with WSL or Docker.
Historical build reconstruction What the reconstruction establishes, stated honestly.
Historical node in an isolated VM The isolated-VM procedure (JAN09-EXECUTED).
Manual runbook The steps that cannot be automated.
Sustained mining and reorg Two nodes, sustained mining, reorg, and optional transaction relay.
Run-findings template The form each recorded run is written up in.

Verify it

Verifying a release Signature, checksum and timestamp, end to end.
Release signing How releases are produced reproducibly and signed.
Cutting a release The checklist actually followed each time.
Preservation Keeping the proof retrievable from more than one root — and what content addressing does not promise.
Identity manifest Every publishing identity bound to the signing key. Signed and anchored.
Attestation over the unsigned tags Ten tags carry no signature of their own — three are lightweight and cannot carry one at all. Rather than re-create them and invalidate commit SHAs already in circulation, this states what each resolves to. .asc · .slhdsa. It prints its own limit: it proves where they pointed when signed, not originally.

Post-quantum

Post-quantum counter-signatures Why the timestamps outlive the signatures, and what was done about it.
Succession certificate The certificate itself. What it establishes.
Counter-signing designation The designation record for the counter-signing key.
What PQ signing costs a 2009-shaped chain Measured, not estimated.

Scope, evidence and governance

Project charter What this lab is for.
Evidence policy The grades, and what each one is allowed to claim.
Public experimental testnet — honest scope Explicitly not a coin launch. Not money.
Why this chain continues, and where it stops The boundary, written down before anyone asked for it.
Internal robustness audit And its scope.
Status Where Genesis (OBL-JAN09) currently stands.
Publishing the VM image The audit that must happen before an image leaves this machine.

The source, the chain and the whitepaper

v0.1.0 → v0.1.3 What Satoshi changed in the four days after the first release.
The November 2008 genesis What it is, and what it is not.
Script resource limits were retrofitted Mid-2010, not present at the beginning.
Build notes — v0.1.2
The whitepaper — identified here, not hosted here And what is established about it, and what is not.
An invitation to run the earliest Bitcoin