Cryptocurrency History 101
3 min readDec 3, 2021
Lots of talk about cryptocurrency but do you know the history of it?
As with the founding of Facebook, the history of crypto is a little fuzzy, but these are the basic high points:
- In 2008, someone named “Satoshi Nakamoto” published a paper titled, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” To the best of anyone’s knowledge, the author’s name is an alias. It has even been suggested that several people wrote the article. I can tell you, it is not the author of this Guide though I have been invested in crypto for some time.