Satoshi Nakamoto

Pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin

About

Pseudonymous author of the Bitcoin whitepaper (2008) and creator of the Bitcoin network launched in January 2009. Identity remains unknown; communicated with early developers until roughly 2011, then disappeared.

Writings

Satoshi Nakamoto · 2008 · 13 min

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

The nine-page paper that launched Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency era. Published in October 2008 under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto to the cryptography mailing list, it proposed a purely peer-to-peer electronic cash system eliminating the need for trusted third parties by combining a proof-of-work chain with cryptographic signatures.