We don't know who Satoshi Nakamoto was. We don't know if Satoshi was male or female - we refer to him as male because that's what his P2P Foundation profile claimed. We don't know if Satoshi was a single person or a group of people. We don't know where Satoshi is from, or where he is now.


But here's what we do know.

Satoshi Nakamoto began coding the first implementation of Bitcoin in C++ in May of 2007. In August of 2008, he sent private emails to two well-respected cypherpunks, Hal Finney and Wei Dai, asking them for feedback on early versions of the Bitcoin white paper. They both gave Satoshi positive feedback, telling him they found it very promising.


A couple months later, Satoshi published the Bitcoin white paper to a public cryptography mailing list.


The Bitcoin announcement...


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FACT SHEET



Bitcoin Whitepaper


Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming....


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The Bretton Woods Agreement


The Bretton Woods agreement was created in a 1944 conference of all of the World War II Allied nations. It took place in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.


Under the agreement, countries promised that their central banks would maintain fixed exchange rates between their currencies and the dollar.2 If a country's currency value became too weak relative to the dollar, the bank would...


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History - The Creature of Jekyll Island


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