Today marks the 15th anniversary of the day Satoshi Nakamoto published the white paper on Bitcoin detailing the novel open-source payment system that would enable any two self-interested parties to make online payments without needing to trust each other or a financial institution as a middleman.

Thanks to Satoshi Nakamoto, we now have an alternative to the fiat fractional reserve banking system that’s seen bailout after bailout with freshly printed cash diluting the savings of hard working people.

Satoshi’s white paper below was the published October 2008, at the heart of the Global Financial Crisis.