Michael Saylor, co-founder and chairman of Strategy Inc., praised Bitcoin’s pseudonymous author Satoshi Nakamoto in a recent tweet as the Bitcoin White Paper marks its 17th anniversary.
On October 31, 17 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto published his 2008 Bitcoin white paper to a crypto mailing list.
This whitepaper is a 9-page document with 12 sections that describes Bitcoin’s core components and underlying philosophy.
The milestone was celebrated across the crypto community, with Strategy tweeting: “17 years ago at 2:10pm EDT, Satoshi Nakamoto started a fire in cyberspace. Happy Bitcoin White Paper Day.”
“Thank you, Satoshi,” Saylor wrote while sharing Strategy’s tweet celebrating the 17th anniversary of the publication of the Bitcoin White Paper.
Thank you, Satoshi. https://t.co/FcIJi5ulX7
— Michael Saylor (@saylor) October 31, 2025
Since the publication of the white paper, innovation around that foundation has accelerated. The white paper proposes a simple idea with far-reaching impact. That means everyone should be able to send value to others on digital networks without relying on a central authority to verify transactions. Before Bitcoin, this was not possible.
Strategies significantly increase BTC
The timing of the Bitcoin Whitepaper’s 17th anniversary coincides with Strategy’s Q3 2025 earnings release.
Michael Saylor-led Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin and the world’s first Bitcoin treasury company, announced its financial results for the three-month period ending September 30, 2025 (third quarter of fiscal year 2025).
From Q3 to October, Strategy increased its Bitcoin holdings to 640,808 BTC, raising $20 billion since the beginning of the year through its robust capital markets platform.
The strategy has generated a year-to-date BTC yield of 26% and $13 billion in BTC profits, reaffirming its full-year guidance of $34 billion in operating income, $24 billion in net income, and a target of $20 billion in BTC profits, based on a year-end BTC price outlook of $150,000.
