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  2. What Is a Bitcoin Faucet? Here’s How They Work - AOL

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    The Bitcoin Aliens faucet has been awarding cryptocurrency since 2014 — and not just bitcoins. The site’s collective apps have given away more than $20 million worth of bitcoin, bitcoin cash ...

  3. Gavin Andresen - Wikipedia

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    Andresen discovered bitcoin in 2010, considering its design to be brilliant. Soon after he created a website named The Bitcoin Faucet which gave away bitcoin. [1] In April 2011, Forbes quoted Andresen as saying, "Bitcoin is designed to bring us back to a decentralized currency of the people," and "this is like better gold than gold."

  4. Bitcoin - Wikipedia

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    The unit of account of the bitcoin system is the bitcoin. It is most commonly represented with the symbol ₿ [1] and the currency code BTC. However, the BTC code does not conform to ISO 4217 as BT is the country code of Bhutan, [63] and ISO 4217 requires the first letter used in global commodities to be 'X'. [63]

  5. Mt. Gox - Wikipedia

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    Mt. Gox was a bitcoin exchange based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. [1] Launched in 2010, it was handling over 70% of all bitcoin transactions worldwide by early 2014, when it abruptly ceased operations amid revelations of its involvement in the loss/theft of hundreds of thousands of bitcoins, then worth hundreds of millions in US dollars.

  6. History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

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    A bitcoin faucet was a website or software app that dispensed rewards in the form of bitcoin for visitors to claim in exchange for completing a captcha or task as described by the website. There have also been faucets that dispense other cryptocurrencies. The first example was called "The Bitcoin Faucet" and was developed by Gavin Andresen in ...

  7. 2020 Twitter account hijacking - Wikipedia

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    On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.