The inventor of Bitcoin remains a bit of a mystery. A paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was posted on Oct. 31, 2008 to a cryptography mailing list with “Satoshi Nakamoto” as the author. However, Nakamoto has never revealed any personal information about himself and his identity has never been confirmed. This has led many to believe the name is a pseudonym for one or more creators. Start of bitcoin In comparison, the Sensex has risen 191.76% in absolute terms from 17,592.77 to 51,329.08 during the same period, as per data available with BSE. Spot gold prices in international markets have delivered a return of 35% after rising from $1,364 to $1,841, as per data available with Goldprice.org. In fact, bitcoin was the best performing asset class of the last decade.
Bitcoin was a breakthrough because it operates entirely peer-to-peer, with no need for banks, governments or intermediaries like PayPal or Visa to make monetary transactions. There is no interference, no regulation and no surveillance. Bitcoin is money that transfers directly, quite literally, from one wallet to another. What Makes Bitcoin Different From Other Currencies? For almost three years, filmmaker Paul Kemp has been investigating what happened to Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.