A cryptography mailing list run by Perry Metzger, where Satoshi Nakamoto announced the Bitcoin whitepaper in October 2008 and answered early questions.
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Satoshi announces the release of Bitcoin v0.1, the first working implementation of the Bitcoin software. Available for Windows, with the source code included.
Donald gave the difficulty its 1982 name; Satoshi claimed a solution outright, swapping the fixed world of known generals for an open one. The King's wi-fi answer became a page on bitcoin.org.
The first person to answer the Bitcoin whitepaper, and a rare lexical match that made him the strongest lead of a fifteen-year investigation. The evidence, weighed.
Nine pages posted to a mailing list on October 31, 2008 — already the report of an 18-month-old, working system. Met first by silence, then by doubts about scale.
Satoshi Nakamoto's first public announcement of Bitcoin on the Cryptography Mailing List. He introduces a peer-to-peer electronic cash system with no trusted third party.
Doubters called it unscalable in 2008. A famed hacker failed to break the code. A judge, a dictionary, and a Nobel nominator weighed in. What others said about Satoshi, read as one record.