A digital publication in 2008 laid out the concept and technical methods for “mining” cryptocurrency. Its author didn’t seem ...

“We do not know who Satoshi is,” Thiel told the crowd. He was referring to Satoshi Nakamoto, the man who invented bitcoin, and had become an “elusive figure who might or might not exist ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. If Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of bitcoin, was who I ...

In 2008 a cryptocurrency called bitcoin was first proposed in a digital white paper signed by someone who called himself “Satoshi Nakamoto ... against prying eyes. Cryptography, one said ...

More than 16 years ago, on Halloween Day of 2008, an entity by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto sent out the whitepaper for a peer-to-peer electronic cash system to a cypherpunk email list.