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2. History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   One of the first supporters, adopters, contributors to bitcoin and receiver of the first bitcoin transaction was programmer Hal Finney. Finney downloaded the bitcoin software the day it was released, and received 10 bitcoins from Nakamoto in the world's first bitcoin transaction on 12 January 2009 (block 170).

3. Bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   In December 2017, the first futures on bitcoin was introduced by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). [36] In February 2018, the price crashed after China imposed a complete ban on bitcoin trading. [37] The percentage of bitcoin trading in the Chinese renminbi fell from over 90% in September 2017 to less than 1% in June 2018. [38]

4. 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.

5. 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 ...

6. Cryptocurrency - Wikipedia

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   By November 2018, bitcoin was estimated to have an annual energy consumption of 45.8TWh, generating 22.0 to 22.9 million tons of CO 2, rivalling nations like Jordan and Sri Lanka. [254] By the end of 2021, bitcoin was estimated to produce 65.4 million tons of CO 2, as much as Greece, [255] and consume between 91 and 177 terawatt-hours annually ...

7. ‘I am not Satoshi Nakamoto’: Subject of HBO documentary ...

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   A new HBO documentary, “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,” claims to have an answer. Yet the man that director Cullen Hoback’s film names as the 2009 founder of bitcoin is denying he is ...

8. Digital currency - Wikipedia

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   Digital currency. Digital currency (digital money, electronic money or electronic currency) is any currency, money, or money-like asset that is primarily managed, stored or exchanged on digital computer systems, especially over the internet. Types of digital currencies include cryptocurrency, virtual currency and central bank digital currency.

9. Blockchain - Wikipedia

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   Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies currently secure their blockchain by requiring new entries to include proof of work. To prolong the blockchain, bitcoin uses Hashcash puzzles. While Hashcash was designed in 1997 by Adam Back , the original idea was first proposed by Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor and Eli Ponyatovski in their 1992 paper "Pricing ...