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A Reading Guide to Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin
A curated way in: questions about Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin history, each pointing to where this archive answers it in full.
Lightning Network
Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.
14 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
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Bitcoin Cash: no founder, an inherited cap, and two splits in three years
Bitcoin Cash inherited Bitcoin's ledger and 21 million cap at the 2017 fork, then split twice more under implementation teams with no single founder to arbitrate.
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Tether (USDT): Born on Bitcoin's Blockchain, No Supply Cap, and a Freeze Switch
Launched on Bitcoin's blockchain as Realcoin in 2014, USDT mints and freezes at one company's discretion, and its reserve reporting has stayed at quarterly attestations, not audits.
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Does Bitcoin dream of electronic cash?
The whitepaper's title names a payment system; section 6's gold is an issuance analogy. Satoshi designed one thing — hard issuance, cash use — whose scarcity later tilted it toward digital gold.
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Bitcoin wallet and interface design — key management, transaction construction, and RPC
How Bitcoin Core manages keys, constructs transactions, selects coins, estimates fees, and exposes functionality through RPC, REST, and ZMQ interfaces.
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Bitcoin monetary design — issuance schedule, fee market, and incentive structure
How Bitcoin's 21 million cap emerges from a geometric halving series, how block rewards transition from subsidy to fees, and how the incentive model sustains honest mining.
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Bitcoin transaction design — UTXO model, Script, and signature schemes
Deep-dive into Bitcoin's transaction layer: UTXO lifecycle, transaction structure, Script evaluation, ECDSA and Schnorr signatures, SegWit, and Taproot.
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Bitcoin system design overview — architecture, data flow, and design-document index
High-level system overview of Bitcoin's architecture, layer model, and data flow. Entry point to a 12-page design-document series covering every major subsystem.
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Satoshi's design intent vs Bitcoin's current reality — four axes of drift
Where Bitcoin's current reality has drifted from Satoshi's design intent: four axes — mining (one-CPU-one-vote to ASIC oligopoly), custody (own keys to exchange IOUs), governance, and scaling.
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Bitcoin Cash splits at block 478558 — the block-size war's first surviving fork (August 2017)
Bitcoin Cash forked from Bitcoin at block 478558, mined by ViaBTC around 12:37 UTC. The 8 MB, no-SegWit chain became the first protocol fork to leave a lasting separate network.
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Peter Todd proposes BIP 65: OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY
Peter Todd proposed BIP 65, introducing OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY — an opcode locking transaction outputs until a future time. Deployed as a soft fork, enabling escrow and payment channels.
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Peter Todd — Bitcoin Core developer and proponent of Replace-by-Fee
Canadian cryptographer, Bitcoin Core developer. Proposed Replace-by-Fee, built OpenTimestamps. Joined BitcoinTalk as retep in Dec 2010. Named a Satoshi candidate by HBO in 2024 (denied).
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Mike Hearn declares 'Bitcoin has failed' and sells all his coins
Mike Hearn published The Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment, declaring Bitcoin had failed due to governance breakdown and the block-size stalemate. He sold all his coins and left the project.
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Laszlo Hanyecz — Bitcoin Pizza Day pioneer and first GPU miner
Software developer from Jacksonville, Florida who ported Bitcoin to macOS, pioneered GPU mining, and made the first known real-world purchase — two pizzas for 10,000 BTC on May 22, 2010 (Pizza Day).