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  2. History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

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    Laszlo Hanyecz, who lives in Jacksonville, created a thread in an online forum offering the bitcoins for anyone who could order him two pizzas. Jeremy Sturdivant, a user from England accepted the offer and ordered the pizzas to his home. The 10,000 Bitcoins were worth about $40 USD at the time.

  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. 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. 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.

  6. The true identity of the cryptocurrency's founder, "Satoshi Nakamoto," has possibly been revealed in the HBO documentary 'Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery'

  7. A Short Guide to Understanding Bitcoins - AOL

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    The bitcoin, a digital currency, "Bitcoins" either sound like a futuristic, implantable, laser-guided, and rocket-pack equipped form of money, or the latest coin-shaped chocolate snack. In reality ...

  8. List of cryptocurrencies - Wikipedia

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    BitConnect was described as an open source, all-in-one bitcoin and crypto community platform but was later discovered to be a Ponzi scheme. 2018 KodakCoin: Kodak and WENN Digital Ethash [84] KodakCoin is a "photographer-centric" blockchain cryptocurrency used for payments for licensing photographs. Petro: Venezuelan Government: onixCoin [85 ...

  9. 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.