{"id":31030,"date":"2020-10-31T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T11:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31030"},"modified":"2025-08-28T01:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:11:49","slug":"twelve-years-since-the-publication-of-satoshi-nakamotos-bitcoin-white-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/twelve-years-since-the-publication-of-satoshi-nakamotos-bitcoin-white-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve years since the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto&#8217;s Bitcoin white paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>31 October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper \u2014 an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To this day, it remains unknown who lies behind the pseudonym of the creator of the first cryptocurrency, and whether it was a single person or a group of people. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey previously expressed admiration for the idea of concealing Bitcoin&#8217;s authorship under a fictitious name, and called the white paper &#8220;poetry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For details on the possible identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, read the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OjjdRwUUzZ\">\n<p>From a drug dealer to Elon Musk: how Satoshi Nakamoto managed to maintain anonymity after ten years of searching<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"From a drug dealer to Elon Musk: how Satoshi Nakamoto managed to maintain anonymity after ten years of searching \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/exclusive\/ot-narkotorgovtsa-do-ilona-maska-kak-satoshi-nakamoto-udalos-sohranit-anonimnost-posle-desyati-let-poiskov\/embed#?secret=BZMbSl3og4#?secret=OjjdRwUUzZ\" data-secret=\"OjjdRwUUzZ\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The price of Bitcoin at the time of writing stands at $13,753 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/bitcoin\">CoinGecko<\/a>), market capitalization exceeds $254 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Miners <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fewer-than-2-5-million-bitcoins-remain-unmined\">have mined<\/a> more than 18.5 million coins out of the 21 million programmed by the algorithm.<\/p>\n<p>The Bitcoin network hash rate is recovering after the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-hash-rate-falls-sharply-as-sichuans-rainy-season-ends\">drop<\/a>, caused by seasonal migration of miners, and stands at 112.2 EH\/s (<a href=\"https:\/\/bitinfocharts.com\/ru\/comparison\/bitcoin-hashrate.html#3m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BitinfoCharts<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Follow Forklog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 31 October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper \u2014 an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,111,1566],"class_list":["post-31030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-satoshi-nakamoto","tag-whitepaper"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31032,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31030\/revisions\/31032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}