Bitcoin

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Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented by programmer, Satoshi Nakamoto, who also developed the Original Bitcoin client.

Tutorial

• Getting started
• Detailed tutorial
• How bitcoin works

History

The Bitcoin project was registered on November 9th, 2008. The Bitcoin network started up on January 3rd, 2009 with the genesis block. The genesis block contains a media reference to the dealings of a central banker in the UK.

Origin

Bitcoin can trace its origin to the B-money Proposal. The paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System describes the early concepts behind Bitcoin and and precedes the first release of Bitcoin software.

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