Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto, who published the invention on 31 October 2008 to a cryptography mailing list in a research paper called "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System".

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Satoshi Nakamoto the name used by the unknown person or persons who designed bitcoin and created its original reference implementation. ... He was active in the development of bitcoin up until December 2010. Nakamoto has claimed to be a man living in Japan, born on 5 April 1975.

why bitcoin...?

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Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a digital payment system invented by an unknown programmer, or a group of programmers, under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. ... Besides being created as a reward for mining, bitcoin can be exchanged for other currencies, products, and services in legal or black markets.

current rate of bitcoins

today 2017-07-29 bitcoin has reached the highest rate in whole cryptocurrency in the entire world today the rate is 
1 BTC = 2722.44 USD