Michael Saylor, Technique’s co-founder and chairman, hails Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto in a latest tweet because the Bitcoin white paper turns 17 years.
Seventeen years in the past, on Oct. 31, Satoshi Nakamoto revealed the Bitcoin white paper on the cryptography mailing record in 2008.
The white paper, a nine-page-long doc consisting of 12 sections, explains the core elements and the underlying philosophy of Bitcoin.
The milestone was celebrated throughout the crypto neighborhood, together with Technique, which tweeted about it: “17 years in the past, at 2:10 pm EDT, Satoshi Nakamoto began a hearth in our on-line world. Joyful Bitcoin Whitepaper Day.”
“Thank You, Satoshi,” Saylor wrote as he shared Technique’s tweet, which celebrated the seventeenth anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper.
For the reason that white paper’s launch, innovation has accelerated round its basis. The white paper proposed a easy concept with far-reaching penalties: anybody ought to have the ability to ship worth to anybody else on a digital community with out counting on a government to validate the transaction. Earlier than Bitcoin, this was not potential.
Technique nets large BTC acquire
The timing of Bitcoin white paper’s seventeenth anniversary coincides with the discharge of Technique’s Q3, 2025 monetary outcomes.
Michael Saylor-led Technique, which is the most important company holder of Bitcoin and the world’s first Bitcoin treasury firm, introduced its monetary outcomes for the three-month interval ended Sept. 30, 2025 (the third quarter of its 2025 fiscal yr).
Within the third quarter and into October, Technique elevated its Bitcoin holdings to 640,808 BTC, having raised $20 billion year-to-date by its strong capital markets platform.
Technique generated BTC yield of 26% and BTC acquire of $13 billion, year-to-date, reaffirming its full-year steering for working earnings of $34 billion, web earnings of $24 billion and a goal of $20 billion BTC acquire based mostly on a BTC worth outlook of $150,000 on the finish of the yr.