In 2008 a cryptocurrency called bitcoin was first proposed in a digital white paper signed by someone who called himself “Satoshi Nakamoto.” A few months later, Mr. Nakamoto released the ...

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.

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 ...

Developed by an unknown inventor using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin was more than a new digital currency—it was a completely new paradigm for financial transactions, decentralization ...