Yes, the Bitcoin white paper, titled "Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper", was published on a cryptography mailing list on October 31, 2008. The paper was sent under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, which became the alias of the person or group of people who created Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin white paper introduced cryptocurrency and explained the basics of blockchain technology. The paper proposed a decentralized system to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions and solve the "double dipping" problem.

We now use this hard money as a store of value. Its hardness is so great that in this halving it surpassed the hardness of gold and apart from its hardness it is unconfiscatable.