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Ideologies / Crypto-Anarchist / Satoshi Nakamoto
Satoshi Nakamoto — ink portrait
§ The minds · active 2008–2011 · unknown · Bitcoin creator (pseudonymous)

Satoshi Nakamoto

A currency without a state

Money beyond the central bank.

Heterodox Crypto-Anarchist →
Economic+78
SocialistMarket
Governance−92
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Social+25
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The pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, whose decentralised digital currency made the crypto-anarchist dream of money beyond state control a working reality — then vanished.

social

Pseudonymous individualist; let the code speak.

economic

Created a decentralised currency outside any government or bank.

governance

Removed the state's monopoly over money by cryptographic consensus.

Notable for
  • Created Bitcoin
  • The blockchain
  • Disappeared anonymously
bitcoindecentralisationpseudonymity
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