// primary sources . 1986-2011

Manifestos & documents

The founding texts Bitcoin inherits from, reproduced verbatim from the archives: two manifestos, Wei Dai's b-money precursor in its evolving versions, and the trace Wei Dai left of Bitcoin on his own site.

01 manifesto . 1993 A Cypherpunk's Manifesto Eric Hughes . 9 mars 1993 The founding text of the cypherpunk movement. "Cypherpunks write code": privacy is not pleaded for, it is built in software. 02 manifesto . 1986 The Conscience of a Hacker The Mentor (Loyd Blankenship) . 8 janvier 1986 The "Hacker Manifesto", written after an arrest and published in Phrack. My crime is curiosity. You may stop me, but you can't stop us all. 03 document . 1998 . 2012 b-money, the evolving versions Wei Dai . 1998 . 2012 Bitcoin's direct precursor (reference no.1 of the whitepaper), and the only change Wei Dai ever made to it: an Appendix A, then frozen from 1999 to 2012. 04 document . 31.10.2008 Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Satoshi Nakamoto . 31 octobre 2008 The nine pages that start it all. Reference number 1: Wei Dai's b-money. Reference number 6: Adam Back's Hashcash. 05 forensics . 2011 Wei Dai's Bitcoin public key Wei Dai . 12 octobre 2011 In 2011, Wei Dai slipped a Bitcoin address into his site's footer, right after the last-modified date. And his PGP key, still online.