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What if Satoshi’s very first Bitcoin code wasn’t just about money
but about hosting on-chain poker night? 🃏♠️
Deep in the original v0.1 client from January 2009 hides a ghost class:
CPokerLobbyDialogBase
It’s a wxWidgets GUI skeleton for a decentralized poker lobby tables, player lists, buttons for dealing hands, folding, raising. Pure UI framework, auto-generated on April 16, 2008 with wxFormBuilder.
Months before the whitepaper.
The code lived in the same file as the built-in miner and early IRC chat for connecting nodes. Nearby were marketplace stubs too like a built-in P2P product catalog.
Satoshi seemed to be experimenting with a broader peer-to-peer vision: money, chat, trade, and maybe games.
Then it quietly vanished. Stripped during early cleanups. Never functional in any released build. Never explained.
Was it a real feature in the works? Leftover GUI experiments? Or a fun glimpse into how ambitious the early days felt?
Nobody knows for sure.
But it makes Bitcoin’s origins feel way more playful than the serious rails we ended up with.
What do you think – on-chain poker the road not taken? Drop your theories 👀
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