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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]
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]
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.
On 25 January 2021, Microstrategy announced that it continued to buy bitcoin and as of the same date it had holdings of ₿70,784 worth $2.38 billion. [156] On 8 February 2021 Tesla's announcement of a bitcoin purchase of US$1.5 billion and the plan to start accepting bitcoin as payment for vehicles, pushed the bitcoin price to $44,141. [157]
Date created Created by Native cryptocurrency Consensus algorithm ... New blockchain created following the collapse of Terra. [25] Stellar: Apr 6, 2016 XLM
Solana is a decentralized blockchain created to provide scalable and user-friendly applications. Solana’s network can reportedly process as many as 50,000 transactions per second, giving it the ...
7. Tpunk #3442 by Tron — $10.5 Million. The Tron blockchain, created to help content creators monetize their work, created this CryptoPunk knockoff and sold it to Tron co-founder Justin Sun ...
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