Nakamoto Satoshi Bitcoin Jun 2026

On October 31, 2008, a little-known cryptography mailing list received a message with a simple subject line: "Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper." The author, Satoshi Nakamoto, attached a nine-page whitepaper outlining a "purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash" that would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.