Garzik says Bitcoin launched with a 2010 Slashdot post
Longtime Bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik has stated that the network's first major wave of users did not come from Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper but from a single Slashdot post published in July 2010 that directed thousands of technically curious readers to a working, downloadable version of the Bitcoin software, according to a summary by WuBlockchain.











