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Origins · SNSatoshi Nakamoto
The pseudonymous author of the Bitcoin whitepaper and the original Bitcoin software.
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People who shaped Bitcoin
Meet Bitcoin’s builders, cryptographers, economists, educators and institutional actors through documented work rather than personality mythology.
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Bitcoin has no chief executive, yet people matter to its history, software and surrounding ideas. Inclusion here records contribution or influence, not endorsement. Follow each person to projects, publications, disputes and primary records, while remembering that no individual can unilaterally change rules enforced by users and nodes.
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People · FINNEYHal Finney
Cypherpunk, PGP developer and creator of RPOW who ran Bitcoin early and received its first recorded person-to-person transaction.
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People · BACKAdam Back
Cryptographer who invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work system cited in the Bitcoin white paper, and later co-founded Blockstream.
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People · DAIWei Dai
Computer engineer who proposed b-money, a cypherpunk design for distributed digital money cited by Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Austrian economics · MISESLudwig von Mises
Economist who systematized praxeology, monetary theory, business-cycle theory and the socialist calculation critique.
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Austrian economics · HAYEKFriedrich A. Hayek
Nobel-winning economist associated with dispersed knowledge, spontaneous order, business cycles and competing money.
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