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30 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
Four exchanges opened between October 2009 and July 2010, none of them Satoshi's: NewLibertyStandard, Malmi's bitcoinexchange.com, Bitcoin Market and Mt. Gox — and the advice he sent from the side.
In August 2010 a forum user asked whether Satoshi could withstand torture for Bitcoin's alert key. What the key could do, whose hands its copies reached, and how it left the network by 2018.
Gerald Cotten ran online Ponzi schemes as a teenager, founded QuadrigaCX in 2013, and defrauded its customers for years before dying in India in 2018 with the only copies of its keys.
Mark Karpelès acquired Mt. Gox in 2011 and ran it through the 2014 collapse. In 2019 he was acquitted of embezzlement but convicted of falsifying records, and given a suspended sentence.
Sam Bankman-Fried founded Alameda Research (2017) and FTX (2019), was convicted on all 7 counts against him in 2023, and sentenced to 25 years and $11 billion in forfeiture in 2024.
Journalist who spent fifteen years investigating Satoshi Nakamoto's identity, publishing The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto (2025). Also wrote one of Bitcoin's first mainstream features (Wired, 2011).
Five AI models were asked the same question and independently picked the same coin. Fact-checking their reasons: structural claims held up, confident superlatives mostly did not.
Three years after Mt. Gox's collapse, Japan's amended Payment Services Act took effect on April 1, 2017, creating a national licensing regime for cryptoasset exchanges.
Governments that banned Bitcoin hardest ended up holding the most of it. A survey of policy reversals across thirty jurisdictions, and the two governments that never reversed at all.
Created Mt. Gox in 2010 and sold it in 2011, then co-created the XRP Ledger and Stellar. Says the whitepaper convinced him double-spend was solvable at all.
Bitcoin's first price was a production-cost estimate. Satoshi predicted in 2010 that market price would come to dictate production cost — not the reverse. The arc from 2009 to modern models.
Satoshi's ~1.1M BTC sit still while companies, ETFs, and nation-states build stacks of their own. A sourced map of who holds the 21 million — and why the biggest whales still have no names.
Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX collapsed after CEO Gerald Cotten died in India (Dec 2018). C$250M owed to ~115,000 customers became inaccessible. The OSC later ruled it was a long-running fraud.
Cross-cutting reading of iconic Bitcoin losses by mechanism: forgotten password (Thomas), physical disposal (Howells), custody-collapse (QuadrigaCX, Mt. Gox, FTX). Tied to Bitcoin's irreversibility.
119,756 BTC stolen from Bitfinex (Aug 2016). DOJ arrested Lichtenstein and Morgan in Feb 2022 and recovered ~94,000 BTC — the largest US financial seizure at the time.
An anonymous plaintiff sues 39,069 dormant Bitcoin addresses holding ~3.8M BTC under New York's lost-property statute (March 2026). Galaxy Digital ties 21,923 of them to the Patoshi pattern.
Bitcoin's 'digital gold' status rests on two layers of decentralization — system and people/organization — and six structural features no later cryptocurrency combines to the same degree.
Deep-dive into Bitcoin's transaction layer: UTXO lifecycle, transaction structure, Script evaluation, ECDSA and Schnorr signatures, SegWit, and Taproot.
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.
Structural reading of the 2010-08-15 overflow incident — soft-fork rescue mechanics, why a 5-hour response was only achievable then, transaction-shape forensics, and the centralization paradox.
Mihai Alisie and Vitalik Buterin launched Bitcoin Magazine in 2012; first print issue May 2012. Grew out of Buterin's writing for the Bitcoin Weekly blog; became a long-running Bitcoin outlet.
Editorial reading of how the 2014 'Bitcoin Core' rebrand reshaped Bitcoin's authority vocabulary — PR #3408 internal disagreement, the 2015-2017 fork episodes, and Hearn's 2025 retrospective regret.
Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor (gmaxwell), Blockstream co-founder, co-developer of libsecp256k1. Authored CoinJoin, co-designed Confidential Transactions. Known for deep technical write-ups.
Finnish developer (born 1988); Bitcoin's most prolific early contributor after Satoshi. Exchanged ~260 emails with Satoshi, ran bitcoin.org, started the Linux port, did the first BTC-to-fiat sale.
Pseudonymous individual who published the first BTC-USD rate on October 5, 2009 ($1 = 1,309.03 BTC) based on electricity cost. Made the first BTC-fiat trade with Martti Malmi; proposed the BTC ticker.
Martti Malmi sells 5,050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for $5.02 via PayPal — the first known Bitcoin-to-fiat exchange, establishing a real-world price of ~$0.001 per BTC.
An integer overflow (CVE-2010-5139) let Block 74638 create 184 billion BTC. Satoshi released a fix 5h 40m after discovery; the fixed chain overtook the bad one about 15 hours after the block.
FTX, the world's second-largest crypto exchange, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Founder SBF resigned. ~$8B in customer funds had been misappropriated; he was later sentenced to 25 years.
NewLibertyStandard publishes the first exchange rate for Bitcoin: $1 = 1,309.03 BTC ($0.000764 per BTC), calculated from the electricity cost of mining — a rudimentary but historic first valuation.
Malmi proposes a Bitcoin-to-euro exchange service. Satoshi answers with a fixed support-price idea and says he will not run an exchange himself; Malmi's own bitcoinexchange.com followed in 2010.