Pretty much.

But I think Satoshi's main reason was to have this as a part of the whole decentralised market thing.

There are some comments in the code for this, where it was meant to do some checking against orders and such.

No, I did not know. Presumably it just assumed they had a process running on a certain port on the IP and the sender could use that to communicate the transfer?

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