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  2. History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

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    The first open source bitcoin client was released on 9 January 2009, hosted at SourceForge. [23] [24] One of the first supporters, adopters, contributors to bitcoin and receiver of the first bitcoin transaction was programmer Hal Finney. Finney downloaded the bitcoin software the day it was released, and received 10 bitcoins from Nakamoto in ...

  3. Bitcoin - Wikipedia

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    Bitcoin wallets were the first cryptocurrency wallets, enabling users to store the information necessary to transact bitcoins. [93] [7]: ch. 1, glossary The first wallet program, simply named Bitcoin, and sometimes referred to as the Satoshi client, was released in 2009 by Nakamoto as open-source software. [6]

  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’s price history: From its 2009 launch to its 2025 heights

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    The New Liberty Standard Exchange recorded the first exchange of Bitcoin for dollars in late 2009. Users on the BitcoinTalk forum traded 5,050 bitcoins for $5.02 via PayPal, making the first price ...

  6. What is Bitcoin? - AOL

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    Bitcoin debuted in 2009, when the software underpinning the currency was released. Its origins are a bit mysterious, however, and a person (or perhaps group) known as Satoshi Nakamoto claims the ...

  7. What Is the Bitcoin White Paper? - AOL

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    The Bitcoin white paper is a nine-page paper with 12 sections plus an abstract that details a new kind of digital currency or online payment system. At the time the paper was written, Bitcoin did ...

  8. Wikipedia:WikiProject Bitcoin/Article Quality/WIP Articles ...

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    Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency, a form of money that uses cryptography to control its creation and management, rather than relying on central authorities. [1] However, not all of the technologies and concepts that make up Bitcoin are new; Satoshi Nakamoto integrated many existing ideas from the cypherpunk community when creating Bitcoin.

  9. Cryptocurrency - Wikipedia

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    The first cryptocurrency was bitcoin, which was first released as open-source software in 2009. As of June 2023, there were more than 25,000 other cryptocurrencies in the marketplace, of which more than 40 had a market capitalization exceeding $1 billion. [10]