The people / A shared historyA network has no center.
A network has no center.
A story has people.
Cryptographers, experimenters, and software contributors. Meet them through the work they left in the public record.
PROFILE / 01?2008 / The pseudonymous creator
The pseudonymous creator
Satoshi Nakamoto
The white paper & the first software
4 original & technical references
PROFILE / 02HF2009 / The early collaborator
The early collaborator
Hal Finney
Cryptography, testing & the first transfer
3 original & technical references
PROFILE / 03WD1998 / The b-money author
The b-money author
Wei Dai
A proposal for distributed digital money
2 original & technical references
PROFILE / 04NS2005 / The bit gold thinker
The bit gold thinker
Nick Szabo
Digital scarcity & smart contracts
2 original & technical references
PROFILE / 05LH2010 / The early experimenter
The early experimenter
Laszlo Hanyecz
Making a purchase with bitcoin
1 original & technical references
PROFILE / 06AB2002 / The Hashcash author
The Hashcash author
Adam Back
Proof of work before Bitcoin
2 original & technical references
PROFILE / 07PW2012 / The protocol contributor
The protocol contributor
Pieter Wuille
Hierarchical wallets, SegWit & Taproot
4 original & technical references
PROFILE / 08GA2010 / The early maintainer
The early maintainer
Gavin Andresen
The faucet & software stewardship
3 original & technical references
Evidence before mythology
These profiles focus on documented contributions. A published recollection is labeled as one; resemblance and speculation are not proof of identity.
How we approach the record