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Pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin who published the whitepaper in October 2008, launched the network in January 2009, then vanished from public view in 2010.

Reference implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, released by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009 and maintained by a global community of open-source developers.

Nathaniel Popper 2015 narrative history of Bitcoin tracing it from cypherpunk origins through its first major boom via the figures who built the network.

Layer 2 protocol built on Bitcoin enabling near-instant, low-cost transactions through bidirectional payment channels, proposed in 2015 by Poon and Dryja.

Pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin who published the whitepaper in October 2008, launched the network in January 2009, then vanished from public view in 2010.

Developer who created the viral What is Bitcoin video and the BitcoinJS library, known for losing the password to a drive that holds 7,002 BTC.

Nathaniel Popper 2015 narrative history of Bitcoin tracing it from cypherpunk origins through its first major boom via the figures who built the network.