Bitcoin, the first decentralized digital currency, was created by an anonymous person or group of people using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Here's a brief history of Bitcoin:
### 2008: The Whitepaper
On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a whitepaper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." This paper outlined the concept of Bitcoin and introduced the idea of blockchain technology, a public ledger for transactions that is maintained by a network of computers, or node