Bitcoin White Paper Turns 17: From Digital Money to a Worldwide Sensation
Seventeen years ago today, an anonymous figure named Satoshi Nakamoto published a nine-page document that quietly changed the world. “I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.” That simple line, shared on Oct. 31, 2008, introduced the Bitcoin white paper — a blueprint for a decentralized…