Bitcoin: A Detailed History Of Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency.

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4 min readOct 4, 2024

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2005 — GIAC Certifications: Craig Wright. Analyst ID:107335. Certified since September 2005. Active/inactive certifications…
https://www.giac.org/certified-professional/craig-wright/107335

2006.Jun — Dr Craig Wright receives certification of being an Information System Security Professional.
“The CISSP certification is one of the most sought-after and prestigious IT certifications in the world. It is required by many of the world’s most security-conscious organizations”

2007.Sep.15 — (prior to The Bitcoin White Paper release 2008.Oct.31) Craig Wright published a White Paper, under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, titled An In-depth Analysis of Proof-of-Work Calculations in the Hashcoin White Paper: Exploring Alternative Strategies.
Within the paper, technology now called “blockchain”, is first described as “TimeChain”.

2007.Oct.30 — (prior to The Bitcoin White Paper release 2008.Oct.31) Craig Wright published a paper for Northumbria University titled: Payments Providers and Intermediaries as Defined in the Law of the Internet. The paper demonstrates comprehensive knowledge regarding the laws surrounding electronic payments.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3438946

2008.Jan.14 — (prior to The Bitcoin White Paper release 2008.Oct.31) Craig Wright publishes a paper to the SANS Institute for GIAC Certification titled: Electronic Contracting In An Insecure World. The paper contains information on what is now known, in relation to blockchain technology, as “Smart Contracts”. https://www.giac.org/research-papers/2088/ https://sansorg.egnyte.com/dl/cUm173NWsp

2008.Jan.24 — (prior to The Bitcoin White Paper release 2008.Oct.31) Craig Wright creates the Bitcoin White Paper document, and later on Aug 22nd, publishes it to the SSRN.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3440802

2008.Mar.12 — (prior to The Bitcoin White Paper release 2008.Oct.31) Craig S Wright wrote an email to Dave Kleiman asking for help to edit a paper “on a form of electronic money. Bit cash, Bitcoin…”

2008.Aug.09 — The First PGP key for email ‘satoshi@vistomail.com’ was created. This Vistomail account and PGP key is what satoshi use when emailing Adam Back & Wei Dai on the 21–22 Aug 2008.

2008.Aug.17 — The domain name netcoin.org was registered.
2008.Aug.18 — The domain name bitcoin.org was registered. https://www.whois.com/whois/bitcoin.org

2008.Aug.22 — Craig Wright, under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, emailed Wei Dai inquiring about reference details of “b-money” for use as citation in a White Paper Titled “Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party.

In 2014, this email, between Satoshi Nakamoto & Wei Dai was published and they were quoted in the _Sunday Times’s 2014–03–02 article

2008.Aug.22 — (prior to The Bitcoin White Paper release 2008.Oct.31) Craig Wright posts the Bitcoin White Paper to the Social Science Research Network.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3440802

2008.Oct.03 — Craig Wright Awarded GIAC Security Expert Malware (GSE-Malware).
Craig Wright is 1 of 4 individual in the world to obtain this certification.
“These individuals will be the elite of malware security, the top practitioners in the field…” — The Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
https://web.archive.org/web/20100414045810/http://www.giac.org/certifications/gse-malware.php

2008.Oct.30 — Craig Wright, under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, released & published a downloadable pre-release draft of the Bitcoin White Paper…

http://www.upload.ae/file/6157/ecash-pdf.html

2008.Oct.31 — On this date in reference to being awarded the GIAC Security Expert Malware (GSE-Malware) certification on 3rd Oct 2008, and being only 1 of 4 individuals in the world to be awarded the certification, Craig Wright is quoted as describing it as…
“One of the hardest certifications ever devised.” — Craig Wright
https://web.archive.org/web/20100414045810/http://www.giac.org/certifications/gse-malware.php

2008.Oct.31 — The Bitcoin White Paper was released to a cryptographic mailing list at 18:10 UTC. https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html
https://craigwright.net/bitcoin-white-paper.pdf

2008.Oct.31 — The pseudonymous author of the Bitcoin White Paper, ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, plagiarised Craig Wright’s work from his paper for Northumbria University, published 30th Oct 2007, in the publication of the Bitcoin White Paper using this exact sentence structure: “a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a…
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3438946 Page 7.

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