Blockchain

Satoshi Nakamoto

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The pseudonym of the unknown person or group who designed the Bitcoin protocol, authored the original Bitcoin whitepaper ("Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" in 2008), and created its first software implementation.

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