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No one knows who he really is, but his/her 9 page white paper is what got this all started!

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'''Satoshi Nakamoto''' is the pseudonym used by the unknown person or group of people who created [[Bitcoin]]. The true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto has never been confirmed and remains one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of technology.

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== Bitcoin Whitepaper ==

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On October 31, 2008, Nakamoto published a paper titled ''Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System'' to a cryptography mailing list. The nine-page paper described a decentralized digital currency system that solved the long-standing "double spending" problem without requiring a trusted central authority — using a [[Proof-of-Work]] chain of cryptographic hashes instead.

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The whitepaper was followed by the release of the Bitcoin software in January 2009. Nakamoto mined the first block of the Bitcoin [[blockchain]] (the "genesis block") on January 3, 2009, embedding in it the headline: ''The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks'' — widely interpreted as a political statement about the failures of the traditional financial system.

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== Activity and Disappearance ==

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Nakamoto remained active in the Bitcoin community through online forums and email correspondence until around mid-2010, at which point they handed off control of the project to developer Gavin Andresen and gradually went silent. Their final known communication was in April 2011.

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It is estimated that Nakamoto mined approximately 1 million Bitcoin in the network's early days. Those coins have never been moved.

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== Identity Speculation ==

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Over the years, numerous individuals have been proposed or have claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, including cryptographer Hal Finney, computer scientist Nick Szabo, and businessman Craig Wright. None of these claims have been conclusively proven. Finney, who was the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction, denied being Nakamoto before his death in 2014. Craig Wright has repeatedly and controversially claimed to be Nakamoto but has failed to provide cryptographic proof.

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== Legacy ==

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The Bitcoin whitepaper is one of the most cited and influential technical documents of the 21st century. Nakamoto's core insight — that a decentralized consensus mechanism could replace institutional trust — became the foundation for thousands of subsequent [[cryptocurrency|cryptocurrencies]] and [[blockchain]] projects.

== External Links ==

== External Links ==

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* [https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf original white paper]

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−	[[Monero]] is a [[cryptocurrency]] ~~that~~ was ~~created~~ in ~~2014~~. The ~~key selling point of~~ the coin ~~is privacy~~. ~~It utilizes~~ three ~~key methods~~ to ~~keep~~ the ~~users anonymity~~ and ~~those are~~ [[RingCT]], [[~~Stealth addresses~~]], and [[~~Ring signatures~~]].	+	[[Monero]] (ticker: XMR) is a [[privacy coin\|privacy-focused]] [[cryptocurrency]] launched in April 2014. It is one of the most widely used cryptocurrencies for which [[cryptography\|cryptographic]] privacy is a core design principle rather than an optional feature.
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		+	== History ==
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		+	Monero grew out of the [[CryptoNote]] protocol, which was described in a 2012 whitepaper by the pseudonymous author Nicolas van Saberhagen. The first CryptoNote-based coin was [[Bytecoin]], but concerns about its large premine led community members to fork it in April 2014 under the name BitMonero, which was quickly shortened to Monero (Esperanto for "coin").
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		+	== Privacy Features ==
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		+	Monero uses three complementary technologies to obscure transaction details:
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		+	* '''[[Ring signatures]]''' — blend a sender's transaction with others drawn from the blockchain, making it difficult to identify the true source of funds.
		+	* '''[[Stealth addresses]]''' — generate one-time addresses for each transaction so that only the sender and recipient know where funds were sent.
		+	* '''[[RingCT]]''' (Ring Confidential Transactions) — introduced in 2017, this hides the amounts being transferred in addition to sender and recipient identity.
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		+	Together these features make Monero transactions unlinkable and untraceable by default, unlike [[Bitcoin]] or most other cryptocurrencies where the ledger is fully public.
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		+	== Mining ==
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		+	Monero uses a [[Proof-of-Work]] algorithm called RandomX, designed to be resistant to [[ASIC]] mining and favor general-purpose [[CPU]] hardware. This is a deliberate choice to keep mining accessible to ordinary users and avoid centralization. The network adjusts its block size dynamically based on transaction volume.
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		+	Unlike Bitcoin, Monero has no hard supply cap. After the initial emission curve, a small "tail emission" of 0.6 XMR per block continues indefinitely to provide ongoing incentive for miners to secure the network.
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		+	== External Links ==
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		+	* [https://www.getmonero.org/ Monero Project]
		+	* [https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/ Moneropedia — official glossary]
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