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2. History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   On 19 June 2011, a security breach of the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange caused the nominal price of a bitcoin to fraudulently drop to one cent on the Mt. Gox exchange, after a hacker used credentials from a Mt. Gox auditor's compromised computer illegally to transfer a large number of bitcoins to himself. They used the exchange's software to sell ...

3. Satoshi Nakamoto - Wikipedia

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   On 18 August 2008, he or a colleague registered the domain name bitcoin.org, [10] and created a web site at that address. On 31 October, Nakamoto published a white paper on the cryptography mailing list at metzdowd.com describing a digital cryptocurrency, titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System". [11] [12] [13]

4. 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 ...

5. Bitcoin: Breaking Down the History (& Controversy) - AOL

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   In 2009, Bitcoin (BTC) was created, becoming the first truly decentralized cryptocurrency. On May 22, 2010, known as Bitcoin Pizza Day, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 Bitcoin for two Papa John’s ...

6. How did cryptocurrency rise in popularity? The history, most ...

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   The birth of bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Bitcoin came as a reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, with the first ever block of bitcoins containing a headline from that day’s edition of The Times ...

7. Who created Bitcoin? Newly published emails offer fresh ... - AOL

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   The messages, which surfaced for the first time last week in a court trial, are a new opportunity to read Satoshi in his own words.

8. Jed McCaleb - Wikipedia

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   McCaleb is also known for creating the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange, and the peer-to-peer eDonkey and Overnet networks as well as the eDonkey2000 application. As of March 2023, McCaleb is worth US$2.4 billion according to Forbes ' Billionaires List.

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.