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Combined a public transaction chain, proof-of-work timestamping, longest-chain consensus and economic incentives to specify a peer-to-peer electronic cash system without a central transaction processor.
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- Bitcoin.org: Bitcoin, A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
- Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
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Satoshi Nakamoto
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Nakamoto: Bitcoin peer-to-peer electronic cash
Combined a public transaction chain, proof-of-work timestamping, longest-chain consensus and economic incentives to specify a peer-to-peer electronic cash system without a central transaction processor.
Scientific scope
The record is the 2008 paper under the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym. Component precedents, the identity behind the pseudonym, the 2009 implementation, later contributors and economic outcomes are not collapsed into this authorship claim.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Satoshi Nakamoto
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.