Card I-13: SATOSHI NAKAMOTO – A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cause because of all the companies that failed since the 1990’s. I hope it’s obvious it was only the centrally controlled nature of those systems that doomed them.

Series I · Card 13 of 21 · SATOSHI’S MAILBOX

A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cause because of all the companies that failed since the 1990’s. I hope it’s obvious it was only the centrally controlled nature of those systems that doomed them.

SATOSHI NAKAMOTO · P2P FOUNDATION · 15.02.2009

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Source

P2P Foundation forum, “Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency”, 15 February 2009

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About the author

Pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. Published the whitepaper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” in 2008 and launched the network in 2009. Their identity remains unknown.

About the source

P2P Foundation: a network founded by Michel Bauwens in 2005, where Satoshi introduced Bitcoin in February 2009.

The question on the back

How quickly do you write off an idea because earlier attempts failed?