In 2008, a person going by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto uploaded a whitepaper to a cryptology mailing list that was entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” In this document he outlined the concept of this crypto-currency, which uses no central bank or authority to allow financial transactions between two anonymous people. Lo and behold, Bitcoin was born! The thing is that nobody knows exactly WHO this Satoshi actually is. After Bitcoin was up-and-running, his communications became very limited, and then disappeared altogether in mid-2010. Meanwhile, the value of Bitcoins have steadily soared, leading to speculation that, whoever he is, he is probably very rich (at least in theory).