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Card I-17: SATOSHI NAKAMOTO – Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There’s nothing to relate it to.

Series I · Card 17 of 21 · SATOSHI’S MAILBOX

Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There’s nothing to relate it to.

SATOSHI NAKAMOTO · BITCOINTALK · 05.07.2010

Turn it over, answer, sign – free, no account.

Source

BitcoinTalk, “Re: Slashdot Submission for 1.0”, 5 July 2010, 21:31 UTC

Open source · satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org ↗

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

Bitcointalk: the forum Satoshi opened in November 2009 to talk about Bitcoin.

The question on the back

Could you explain Bitcoin to someone who’s never heard of it?