Izaak van Oosten — The Garden of Eden

In the beginning Satoshi created a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

And the new money was without form and void, and emptiness was upon the face of the system. And the spirit of Satoshi moved upon the face of new money.

And Satoshi said, Let there be blocks: and there were blocks.

And Satoshi saw the block, that it was good. And Satoshi divided the block from the chain.

And Satoshi said, Let the space on top of the block be gathered together unto one place, and let the header appear: and it was so.

And Satoshi said, Let there be transactions: and there were transactions. And Satoshi called that transaction Coinbase transaction. And let that transaction read “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”. The first block had passed on the first day.

And Satoshi said, Let the computers bring forth hashes, pointing to the previous block, and the merkle tree yielding hashes after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the header: and it was so. The second day had passed without a block.

And Satoshi said, Let there be electricity spent on hashing the headers, and let it be difficult, and let the longest chain not only serve as proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU power. And Satoshi called it Proof-of-Work. The third day had passed without a block.

And Satoshi said, Let there be keys in the block to give meaning to man. Public keys and private keys: and it was so. The fourth day had passed without a block.

And Satoshi created great whales, and every living creature that tradeth, which the blocks brought forth abundantly, after their kind: and Satoshi saw that it was good. The fifth day had passed without a block.

And Satoshi said, Let us make nodes in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the nonces in the headers, over the signatures in the transactions, and let them verify each merkle tree, proof-of-work and signature.

And Satoshi blessed them, and Satoshi said unto them, be fruitful and accumulate, and replenish the economy, trade all that is mutually beneficial, directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.

And Satoshi saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. Plenty of blocks passed on the sixth day.

And on the seventh day Satoshi ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day.