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Event January 3, 2009 Added May 27, 2026 Updated July 20, 2026 Design Document

Bitcoin P2P network design — node discovery, message relay, and block propagation

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

How Bitcoin nodes find each other, exchange transactions and blocks, and resist network-level attacks across the P2P gossip layer.

Event October 31, 2008 Added February 8, 2026 Updated July 29, 2026 Whitepaper

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (Whitepaper)

Satoshi Nakamoto

The final Bitcoin whitepaper, 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,' published October 31, 2008. Hosted at bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf, announced on the Cryptography Mailing List.