31 October 2008: nine pages, posted under a name no one has ever traced. Eighteen years later, the network is still running. A 22-second salute.
On 31 October 2008, nine pages were posted under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The claim was simple and enormous: money secured by cryptographic proof instead of trust. Within three years Satoshi was gone. The network was not.
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