On October 31, 2008, an unknown person with the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto published a 9-page document in which he described the system of sending electronic tokens. Two months later, the first block of the system was created, and the existence of Bitcoin became a fact. Ten years ago nobody would have thought that an entry on one of the online forums could bring such a revolution.
I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party…
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https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf