# Satoshi Nakamoto > [!note] Stub — fill out The pseudonymous inventor of [[Bitcoin]], who released its white paper in 2008 and the network in 2009 before disappearing. Never reliably identified. Built into Bitcoin's genesis block an anti-fiat message ("Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"), making the project an explicit instrument of [[Hard Money Politics]]. Expand with the candidate-identity debate.