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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]
Their 1991 paper "How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document” is where they first describe a system now known as a "blockchain". [9] In this study, Haber and Stornetta sought to create mechanisms to create digital time stamps, offering a solution for maintaining the integrity of digital records and ensuring that they could not be modified or ...
Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain is a 2018 American documentary film written and directed by British American actor Alex Winter. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The film covers the evolution of blockchain technology and its divisive nature while considering whether it is a economic bubble .
He created the Chia Network in an effort to design and launch the Chia blockchain, which used unused hard drive space, which would consume less energy than the proof of work protocol commonly used by blockchain networks. [11] In 2018, Cohen raised $3.4 million in seed funding. [12]
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 ...
Chia Network is a company founded by Cohen in 2017 [6] that has implemented a proof of space-time cryptocurrency called Chia.Chia is intended to avoid the waste of energy involved in proof-of-work-based cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, [7] and the vulnerability to state actors of proof-of-stake systems.
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 ]
This category includes the main blockchain article, its subarticles and related articles. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.