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The Birth of Bitcoin
Satoshi's story — from a nine-page paper sent to a mailing list to a currency that outlived its inventor.
Halloween 2008Free
The email that started it all, six weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed — and what is genuinely known about Satoshi Nakamoto.
11m
The Whitepaper in Plain EnglishIncluded with purchase
Nine pages that changed money, translated sentence by sentence into everyday language.
14m
Block ZeroIncluded with purchase
January 3, 2009: the genesis block, the newspaper headline hidden inside it, and Bitcoin's first days.
10m
From Worthless to PizzaIncluded with purchase
How bitcoin got its first price, and the two pizzas that made it real money.
12m
The DisappearanceIncluded with purchase
Satoshi steps back, goes quiet, and vanishes — leaving roughly a million bitcoin untouched to this day.
10m
Bitcoin Grows Up: 2011–TodayIncluded with purchase
Silk Road to the ETF era on one timeline — and the three things people constantly confuse.
14m