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  2. History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the release of bitcoin, there were a number of digital cash technologies, starting with the issuer-based ecash protocols of David Chaum and Stefan Brands. [3] [4] [5] The idea that solutions to computational puzzles could have some value was first proposed by cryptographers Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor in 1992.

  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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    Bitcoin’s schedule is 10.5 million coins created in the first four years, 5.25 million the next four years, 2.625 million the next four years, and so on, never to exceed a total of 21 million.

  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. What Is the Bitcoin White Paper? - AOL

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    Before Bitcoin became the first cryptocurrency, it was just an idea outlined in a white paper by an author who went by the pen name of Satoshi Nakamoto. Nakamoto's vision was of a decentralized ...

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

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    Who invented Bitcoin? That question has become a captivating mystery for the digital age along the lines of whatever happened to D.B. Cooper or who was Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.

  8. List of cryptocurrencies - Wikipedia

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    A bitcoin-based currency featuring instant transactions, decentralized governance and budgeting, and private transactions. 2014 NEO: NEO Da Hongfei & Erik Zhang SHA-256 & RIPEMD160: C# [38] dBFT: China based cryptocurrency, formerly ANT Shares and ANT Coins. The names were changed in 2017 to NEO and GAS. 2014 MazaCoin: MZC BTC Oyate Initiative ...

  9. What is Bitcoin? - AOL

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    Bitcoin suffers from some significant drawbacks that are intrinsic to its design, notably its limit on the number of coins in circulation and its general volatility. 1. Bitcoin is an energy hog