Protocol · October 31, 2008
Satoshi publishes the Bitcoin whitepaper
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Posted to the Cryptography Mailing List under the title 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System' — nine pages that defined a sixteen-year-and-counting argument.
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- primaryBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (original whitepaper PDF, bitcoin.org) ↗
- referenceSatoshi Nakamoto's original announcement email, "Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper", cryptography mailing list, Oct 31 2008 (Satoshi Nakamoto Institute) ↗
- referenceBitcoin — Wikipedia (whitepaper posted to cryptography mailing list on 31 October 2008) ↗