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- Oct 31, 200890% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Nakamoto Publishes the Bitcoin White Paper
- A link to "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", authored by Satoshi Nakamoto, was posted to a cryptography mailing list on 31 October 2008[1][2]
- The domain bitcoin.org had been registered earlier that year, on 18 August 2008[2]
- "On 3 January 2009, the bitcoin network came into existence with Satoshi Nakamoto mining the genesis block of bitcoin (block number 0), which had a reward of 50 bitcoins"; its text refers to a headline in The Times published that day[2]
- The first open source client was released on 9 January 2009, and Hal Finney received 10 bitcoins from Nakamoto in the first transaction on 12 January 2009[2]
- The pin has no place: the author is pseudonymous and the paper was published to a mailing list, not from an institution[3]
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- [1]90%bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdfbitcoin.org· Posted Sep 22, 2026· Starts Oct 31, 2008 ✓· 33% of score
Wikipedia's[2][3] History of bitcoin dates the posting plainly: "Later that year, on 31 October, a link to a paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was posted to a cryptography mailing list." The pin is that posting; the network itself began on 3 January 2009 with the genesis block.
- [2]90%History of bitcoinen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 22, 2026· 33% of score
Dates the white paper's posting on 31 October 2008, the registration of bitcoin.org[1] on 18 August 2008, the genesis block on 3 January 2009 with its 50-bitcoin reward and its embedded reference to a headline in The Times of that day, and the first transaction to Hal Finney on 12 January 2009.
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