Early history

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See also: 2009

1998

November

26 – Wei Dai describes b-money.

2002

August

01 – Adam Back publishes Hashcash, which would later be used in bitcoin mining.

December

09 – An unidentified cypherpunk describes a "virtual coin" on a UK finance newsgroup.

2007

Month unknown

Date unknown – Satoshi Nakamoto begins developing Bitcoin.

2008

August

18 – The bitcoin.org domain name is registered.
22 – Satoshi Nakamoto contacts Wei Dai after a referral from Adam Back.

October

31 – The Bitcoin white paper is published by Satoshi.

November

09 – The Bitcoin project is registered on SourceForge.

References

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