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The domain name bitcoin.org was registered on 18 August 2008. [14] On 31 October 2008, a link to a white paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was posted to a cryptography mailing list. [15] Nakamoto implemented the bitcoin software as open-source code and released it in January 2009. [7]
Nakamoto continued to collaborate with other developers on bitcoin's software until mid-2010, making all modifications to the source code himself. He then gave control of the source code repository and network alert key to Gavin Andresen, [20] and transferred several related domains to various prominent members of the bitcoin community.
Based on bitcoin's open-source code, other cryptocurrencies started to emerge. [ 46 ] The Electronic Frontier Foundation , a non-profit group, started accepting bitcoins in January 2011, [ 47 ] then stopped accepting them in June 2011, citing concerns about a lack of legal precedent about new currency systems. [ 48 ]
A diagram of a bitcoin transfer. The bitcoin protocol is the set of rules that govern the functioning of bitcoin.Its key components and principles are: a peer-to-peer decentralized network with no central oversight; the blockchain technology, a public ledger that records all bitcoin transactions; mining and proof of work, the process to create new bitcoins and verify transactions; and ...
The following is a list of notable hard forks splitting bitcoin by date and/or block: Bitcoin Satoshi Vision: Forked at block 556766, 15 November 2018, for each Bitcoin Cash (BCH), an owner got 1 Bitcoin SV (BSV). eCash: Forked at block 661648, 15 November 2020, for each Bitcoin Cash (BCH), an owner got 1,000,000 eCash (XEC).
Ethereum. Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain with smart contract functionality. Ether (abbreviation: ETH[a]) is the native cryptocurrency of the platform. Among cryptocurrencies, ether is second only to bitcoin in market capitalization. [2][3] It is open-source software.
Blockchain. A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes. [1][2][3][4] Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree, where data nodes are represented by leaves).
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 [76] KodakCoin is a "photographer-centric" blockchain cryptocurrency used for payments for licensing photographs. Petro: Venezuelan Government: onixCoin [77 ...