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A blockchain was created by a person (or group of people) using the name (or pseudonym) Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 to serve as the public distributed ledger for bitcoin cryptocurrency transactions, based on previous work by Stuart Haber, W. Scott Stornetta, and Dave Bayer. [8]
Stuart Haber is an American cryptographer and computer scientist, known for his contributions in cryptography and privacy-preserving technologies and widely recognized as the co-inventor of the blockchain.
Created as an alternative currency for Iceland, intended to replace the Icelandic króna. 2014 Dash: DASH Evan Duffield [35] [36] X11: C++ [37] PoW & Proof of Service [nt 1] A bitcoin-based currency featuring instant transactions, decentralized governance and budgeting, and private transactions. 2014 NEO: NEO Da Hongfei & Erik Zhang SHA-256 ...
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. [17] [18] 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.
New blockchain created following the collapse of Terra. [25] Stellar: Apr 6, 2016 XLM BFT? ? Yes ? [4] EOS.IO: Jul 1, 2017 ? EOS DPoS: Yes No ? ? [4] LBRY? LBC Ripple: June 2012 Ripple Labs: XRP BFT: No No No Immediate Account-balance Blockchain is known as XRP Ledger. Smart contract capabilities are being added. [26] [27] [28] Stacks? STX ...
On 3 January 2009, the bitcoin network was created when Nakamoto mined the starting block of the chain, known as the genesis block. [18] Embedded in this block was the text "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks ", which is the date and headline of an issue of The Times newspaper. [ 6 ]
David Lee Chaum (born 1955) is an American computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor.He is known as a pioneer in cryptography and privacy-preserving technologies, and widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash.
This category includes the main blockchain article, its subarticles and related articles. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.