Wei Dai’s B-money never became a live network, but its 1998 design introduced decentralized accounting, computational issuance, digital signatures, and pseudonymous transfers that later echoed in Bitcoin.
Binance Online 2026 drew more than 50,000 pre-registrations and 300,000 concurrent viewers in its first 10 minutes, with speakers from Binance, Ripple, Solana, Blockstream and BlackRock focusing on users, stablecoins, RWA, AI and regulation.
Researchers are revisiting e-cash.org after records showed it was registered 29 days before bitcoin.org, though the link to Satoshi Nakamoto remains circumstantial rather than proven.
Who created Bitcoin? From Dorian Nakamoto to Craig Wright, this article reviews the evidence and controversies surrounding the ten most speculated candidates for Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity.
A viral clip from the Jack Neel Podcast revives the theory by Chinese-Canadian commentator Jack Xueqin Jiang that the CIA created Bitcoin as a deep state surveillance tool. Despite technical flaws, the theory has attracted 2.3 million subscribers.
Domain e-cash.org, registered on July 20, 2008, predates bitcoin.org by 29 days, matching Satoshi's private ecash.pdf file. Historian Gvern Branwen links it to Satoshi's early branding attempt, later discarded. Domain remains anonymous until 2028.
A viral podcast clip has reignited claims that Bitcoin was created by the CIA or the U.S. deep state. But the argument presented by Jiang Xueqin lacks documentary evidence and has been challenged by crypto analysts citing Bitcoin’s open-source code and anti-centralization design.
Nick Szabo remains one of the most discussed candidates in the search for Satoshi Nakamoto. His bit gold proposal, altered blog dates, missing correspondence, and public remarks continue to fuel speculation, though significant counterarguments remain.
