The 2008 Bitcoin Whitepaper: The Foundation of Decentralized Digital Money
Introduction to the 2008 Bitcoin Whitepaper In October 2008, an individual or group under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto published a nine-page document titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” This whitepaper introduced Bitcoin, the first decentralized cryptocurrency, and laid the technical and philosophical foundations for the modern crypto industry. The 2008 whitepaper described a system