P2P Foundation

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On 11 February 2009 Satoshi posted “Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency” on its forum, his most accessible early description of the problem Bitcoin solves: trust in central banks and financial institutions (the post). He sent the same text to the P2P Research mailing list (the email).

On his P2P Foundation profile Satoshi claimed to be a 37-year-old man living in Japan.^[1] The same thread received the post “I am not Dorian Nakamoto” in March 2014 (Media investigations).

See also

• Cryptography mailing list
• Media investigations

References

1. Satoshi Nakamoto, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 20 October 2026.

Primary sources

The messages and commits this article draws on, in Satoshi Mail and where they were first published.

1. Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency, P2P Foundation forum, 11 February 2009. Original source
2. [p2p-research] Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency, P2P Research list, 11 February 2009. Original source

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