17 Years Later: The Cryptographic Magic of Satoshi’s Halloween White Paper Launch

On Oct. 31, 2008, while most of the world was carving pumpkins and collecting candy, an anonymous coder dropped something far more enduring into the void: a nine-page white paper that redefined money ￰0￱ Night the Mask Slipped—Just Enough Halloween is a holiday of masks, shadows, and transformations—an almost poetic date for a pseudonym