The 9-paged Bitcoin white paper turns 14 years old today
Halloween and October 31 are quite synonymous. As people around the world are busy ‘witching’ around and celebrating the said occasion, the Bitcoin white paper has simultaneously turned fourteen years old. 14 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto published the #Bitcoin white paper. pic.twitter.com/eRdrxG6gsy — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) October 31, 2022 Rewinding On October 31, 2008, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin—Satoshi Nakamoto—released the Bitcoin white paper to a cryptography mailing list. The list was hosted by Metzdow and run by a group of cypherpunks. Per records, the Bitcoin white paper was sent via a message titled “Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper,” in which Nakamoto elucidated that the novel digital currency was fully peer-to-peer and required no trusted third party for a transaction to be executed. The paper also chalked out the main properties by shedding light on the prevention of double spending, anonymity, th...