THE PERMANENT BITCOIN ARCHIVE
Bitcoin, in Satoshi’s own words.
Every forum post, email and quote Satoshi Nakamoto left behind, from the first whitepaper email in 2008 to the last message in 2011. Each record links to its original source.
October 31
I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party. The paper is available at: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf The main properties: Double-spending is prevented…
AddressesAs an additional firewall, a new key pair should be used for each transaction to keep them from being linked to a common owner. Some linking is still unavoidable with multi-input transactions, which necessarily reveal…
Bitcoin DesignWe have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust. We started with the usual framework of coins made from digital signatures, which provides strong control of ownership, but is incomplete…
The incentive may help encourage nodes to stay honest. If a greedy attacker is able to assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it to defraud people by stealing back his…Read the full quotes ↗
Three records that tell the story.
- 01Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
Satoshi announces the whitepaper to a cryptography mailing list.
- 02Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency
Bitcoin is introduced to the world on the P2P Foundation forum.
- 03Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency
Satoshi’s final public word on the forum before stepping away.
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