Seventeen years ago, one anonymous person (or group, if you like conspiracy theories) uploaded a nine-page PDF that hit the world harder than half the economic textbooks written that decade. Traders didn’t know it then, but a quiet Halloween night in 2008 was the start of a full-blown financial culture shift. Every year we circle back to that moment, and somehow the story keeps getting wilder. Bitcoin went from cypherpunk fanfiction to an asset held by hedge funds, governments, treasuries, and your cousin who thinks he’s “early”. And yes, it’s still only nine pages. Satoshi Nakamoto never gave us a face, but they ... (full story)