History & Culture

Where Bitcoin came from and the moments that shaped it.

• The whitepaper

  The nine pages from 2008 that explained how digital cash could work without banks.

• Satoshi Nakamoto

  Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, who built it, ran it two years, and vanished.

• The genesis block

  Block zero — Bitcoin's first block, mined January 3, 2009, with a message inside.

• Pizza Day
• The cypherpunks
• Mt. Gox
• The blocksize war
• HODL