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2. History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   Bitcoin price surge after Elon Musk and Tesla announcements of investments into Bitcoin, including acceptance of payment. [213] 16 February 2021 $50,000 : Bitcoin price reached new all-time high of $50,000. [214] 10 April 2021 $60,000 : Bitcoin back above $60,000 as Coinbase gets ready to go public on the stock market. [215] 14 April 2021 $64,800

3. Bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Based on a free-market ideology, bitcoin was invented in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto, an unknown person. [5] Use of bitcoin as a currency began in 2009, [6] with the release of its open-source implementation. [7]: ch. 1 In 2021, El Salvador adopted it as legal tender ...

4. Bitcoin: Breaking Down the History (& Controversy) - AOL

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   In 2009, Bitcoin (BTC) was created, becoming the first truly decentralized cryptocurrency. On May 22, 2010, known as Bitcoin Pizza Day, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 Bitcoin for two Papa John’s ...

5. Satoshi Nakamoto - Wikipedia

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   Satoshi Nakamoto message embedded in the coinbase of the first block. Nakamoto said that the work of writing bitcoin's code began in the second quarter of 2007. [9] On 18 August 2008, he or a colleague registered the domain name bitcoin.org, [10] and created a web site at that address.

6. Bitcoin just hit $100,000, but how did it get there? - AOL

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   Bitcoin has broken through the $100,000 mark for the first time—a journey 15 years in the making. ... Nakamoto created a digital coin enabled by miners who help run a transparent public ledger ...

7. Who Invented Bitcoin? HBO Documentary ‘Money Electric ... - AOL

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   The inventor of Bitcoin famously held on to 1.1 million coins — or 5% of the 21 million Bitcoins that will ever be mined, according to the protocols laid out in the white paper.

8. Cryptocurrency - Wikipedia

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   In January 2009, bitcoin was created by pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto. It used SHA-256, a cryptographic hash function, in its proof-of-work scheme. [16] [17] In April 2011, Namecoin was created as an attempt at forming a decentralized DNS. In October 2011, Litecoin was released, which used scrypt as its hash function instead of SHA-256.

9. What Is the Bitcoin White Paper? - AOL

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   The Bitcoin white paper is a nine-page paper with 12 sections plus an abstract that details a new kind of digital currency or online payment system. At the time the paper was written, Bitcoin did ...