A Bit of History

Bitcoin began with it’s genesis block (first block in the chain) in January of 2009, which was based upon a paper published in November of the prior year by a “Satoshi Yakamoto” (said to be a pseudonym), the paper was titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”[1].  Although this was the first mainstream implementation of this concept, it’s predicates can be traced back to 1991.


     How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document [2]
        Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta, 1991

[1] https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

[2] https://nakamotoinstitute.org/literature/time-stamp-digital-document/