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Bitcoin at 16: From experiment to trillion-dollar asset

DIGIT — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:25:50 +0000

In just 16 years, Bitcoin has grown to become the world’s 10th largest asset and the best currency for “financial freedom,” according to Tether CEO, Paolo Ardoino.

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BTC rallies past $62.6K after BlackRock issues Bitcoin white paper

DIGIT — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:51:31 +0000

Bitcoin’s adoption trajectory will largely depend on future macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns, according to BlackRock.

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Craig Wright’s Web Portal Removes False Claims, Site States He is Not Bitcoin’s Founder

DIGIT — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:37:31 +0000

As news emerged about British High Court Judge James Mellor’s referral to prosecute Craig Wright for perjury, Wright’s website, craigwright.net, now displays a legal notice stating he is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of bitcoin. The main page of the web portal hosts the notice, which reads: “Dr Wright is not the author of the […]

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Satoshi Nakamoto’s Seminal Bitcoin White Paper Turns 14 Today

DIGIT — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:30:01 +0000

Approximately 14 years ago today, on Halloween, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin to the world by sharing the renowned white paper. Satoshi’s invention, shared on metzdowd.com’s Cryptography Mailing List, not only solved a problem that had plagued computer scientists for years, but the invention also redefined how people look at money. Furthermore, as a side effect, […]

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Bitcoin Added to the Guinness Book of World Records as the ‘First Decentralized Cryptocurrency’

DIGIT — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:00:37 +0000

Since 1955 Guinness World Records (GWR) has published a reference book annually that covers world records from extreme natural events to human achievements. This year, Bitcoin has entered the fray as the world’s first and most valuable cryptocurrency network as GWR has added the subject to this year’s annual records. Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Enters the […]

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‘There’s More Work to Do’ — 11 Years Ago, Satoshi Nakamoto Sent a Final Message to the Bitcoin Community

DIGIT — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 17:30:05 +0000

To this day, Satoshi Nakamoto is one of Bitcoin’s biggest mysteries as people have searched far and wide to uncover the creator’s identity. 11 years ago, on December 12, 2010, the pseudonymous blockchain programmer (or programmers) left a final message to the crypto community stressing that “there’s more work to do on [denial-of-service] DoS.” Satoshi […]

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Celebrating the Seminal Bitcoin White Paper Satoshi Nakamoto Published 13 Years Ago Today

DIGIT — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:30:09 +0000

All around the world cryptocurrency supporters and proponents of blockchain technology are celebrating the 13th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper. The summary of the inventor’s creation was published on metzdowd.com’s Cryptography Mailing List on Halloween 2008, as it gave birth to an asset with a market valuation of over $1 trillion and sparked the […]

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A Look at How Buckminster Fuller Predicted Bitcoin: ‘A Realistic, Scientific Accounting System of What Is Wealth’

DIGIT — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:30:30 +0000

Richard Buckminster Fuller was a well known American architect, systems theorist, author, and inventor. Similar to the visions expressed by the industrialist Henry Ford, the Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek, and Austrian economist Milton Friedman, Buckminster Fuller also predicted a concept that resembled Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin invention 54 years ago in 1967. Buckminster Fuller: ‘Build a […]

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Bitcoin.org blocks access to Bitcoin software download in the UK

DIGIT — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 13:42:49 +0000

Apart from removing the white paper, Cøbra has removed access to Bitcoin software for site visitors from the United Kingdom.

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Craig Wright Wins Default Judgment Against Cobra — Bitcoin.org Forced to Remove White Paper

DIGIT — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:00:58 +0000

The self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin, Craig Wright, has won a default judgment in London’s High Court in his copyright infringement case against the pseudonymous operator of bitcoin.org. According to a report, the website and its owner Cobra must remove the Bitcoin white paper from the web portal and pay $48K in legal costs as well. […]

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