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Seeking early Bitcoin Linux users with preserved 2009–2011 systems

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Hello,

I'm an independent researcher investigating whether the Debian OpenSSL RNG vulnerability from that era affected any Bitcoin environments that were actually deployed in the wild.

I've already reproduced relevant cryptographic behavior under a controlled synthetic configuration. The problem now is historical provenance: I don't want to keep choosing configurations myself until something works. I want independent evidence of what an actual Bitcoin user's machine contained at the time.

I'm looking for anyone who ran Bitcoin on Linux around 2009–2011 and might still have the original computer, hard drive, VM, full-system backup, or filesystem backup.

I'm particularly interested in things like the Linux distribution/version, architecture, package state, historical Bitcoin executable, OpenSSL/libcrypto version, and other non-secret runtime information.

Please Read:

I do not want your wallet.dat, private keys, passwords, seed phrases, or access to funds. Please don't send any of those. If you have original media, preserve it unchanged for now.

To be transparent about where this research could eventually lead: if a historically deployed weakness were established with sufficient evidence, one potential application I'm interested in is owner-authorized wallet recovery. That's not something the research has established yet.

For Context:

In my existing controlled work, I froze the experimental fingerprint before comparing it against a separately frozen dataset of 142,302 historical public Bitcoin signatures from blocks 0–100,000. That comparison produced zero matches of that none configuration.

Right now the question is much narrower: did the behavior I've reproduced synthetically exist in a Bitcoin configuration that somebody actually used?

If you were running Bitcoin on Linux during that period or know someone who was an old hardware/backups may still exist, I'd be interested in hearing what survives.

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