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October 31, 2008 Wikipedia

Bitcoin did not appear from nowhere — inheritance and invention

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Adam Back, Wei Dai

Bitcoin v0.1 reuses one cypherpunk primitive (PoW from Hashcash), borrows general CS components (Merkle trees, linked timestamping), and synthesizes the rest (UTXO, mining, 21M cap, P2P, ECDSA).