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Who is the Founder of Bitcoin?

The original inventor of Bitcoin is known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. As of 2021, the true identity of the person — or organization — behind the alias remains unknown.

On October 31, 2008, Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper, detailing how a peer-to-peer online currency could be implemented. They proposed using a decentralized ledger of transactions packaged into groups (called “blocks”) and secured by cryptographic algorithms — the entire system was later dubbed the “blockchain.”