Satoshi Nakamoto


Finance

Day 4 of Kleiman v. Wright: Craig Wright’s Testimony Delayed

The self-styled “Satoshi” will likely take the stand on Monday.

"Justice" (ca. 1440), Metropolitan Museum of Art

Finance

Winklevoss-Led Gemini Behind Bitcoin White Paper Excerpts on NYC Billboard

The crypto exchange inked a three-year deal for digital signage that was previously home to CNN.

Gemini's new billboard displays a snippet of the Bitcoin White Paper. (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)

Markets

‘Rare Pepe’ Steeped in Bitcoin History Fetches $500K on NFT Market OpenSea

Frog-themed digital collectible cards from the mid-2010s are getting retooled for fast sales in the white-hot NFT market.

An early blockchain-based digital collectible card combined the Pepe the Frog meme with the likeness of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, reported (controversially) in 2014 to be Bitcoin's founder. Now it's an NFT.

Markets

The Poly Hack and Crypto's Trust Issues

In crypto, you shouldn't have to ask who you can trust. But as the Poly Network hack and its resolution have showed, you absolutely do.

Jack Nicholson plays the Joker in the movie "Batman," directed by Tim Burton.

Policy

'Satoshi's Birthday': April 5 Is a Day to Be Thankful for Bitcoin

The 88th anniversary of FDR's executive order 6102 brings a sobering reminder of the value of confiscation-resistant currency.

FDR, shown here in 1943, cited a "national emergency" in his executive order banning gold holding 10 years earlier.

Finance

Coinbase Lists Unmasking of Bitcoin's Creator Among Business Risks

DeFi, social media and data breaches are also acknowledged as "risk factors" for investors in the company's hot-off-the-presses prospectus.

CoinDesk CEO Brian Armstrong

Markets

Bitcoin.org Rebuts Craig Wright's 'Meritless' Copyright Claim on Bitcoin White Paper

The open-source project said it would not comply with Wright's demand to take down its copy of the iconic founding document.

bitcoin logo

Tech

Over $20K? Why Is Bitcoin Worth Anything at All?

Bitcoin’s price continues to climb, BTC is leaving exchanges, and bitcoin "whale" sightings are becoming more frequent. But the question remains, why?

BITCOIN ACADEMY: "Free market" economists were central to the development of Bitcoin. From left to right: Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, FA Hayek and Murray Rothbard.

Markets

In Echo of Bitcoin's Genesis, Mining Pool Embeds Reuters Headline on the Blockchain

Slush Pool has immortalized a potentially iconic Reuters headline on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Reuters headline embedded in Bitcoin's blockchain

Markets

Previously Unpublished Emails of Satoshi Nakamoto Present a New Puzzle

The emails between Satoshi and Hal Finney come from Bitcoin’s earliest days. They show how closely the cryptocurrency’s creator collaborated with early supporters at the time.

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