On October 31, 2008, was not the only Time. Satoshi Nakamoto was published on that day, his plans for bitcoin. A very important day, because this eight-page white paper, which has the world been taken. Therefore, it needs to be remembered on this day, with five interesting facts.
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Fact 1: The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is still unknown
Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym. The creator of bitcoin used this name in order to remain anonymous. To this day we do not know who he is. It may be a man, a woman, or even a group of people.
However, there is still plenty of speculation as to who the mysterious author was. The various names that have passed the revue, such as Nick Szabo, Hal Finney and Dorian Nakamoto, and Craig Wright.
Fact 2: Not everyone would be thrilled
After almost eleven years old, your bitcoin is assured to be a success to mention. But that is not always self-evident have been. At first, people were very critical. Is the bitcoin, however, to be scalable? Does bitcoin have intrinsic value? How do you make sure that everyone on the network is honest?
Just questions, that is, until the day for it. Satoshi Nakamoto took all the feedback to heart, and talked themselves happily with them. If you have the time to talk about it today, this thread has been very interesting to read.
Fact 3: Bitcoin and the blockchain are hardly in the white paper
In the white paper, which is called Satoshi Nakamoto, only the word of bitcoin. And that’s the title of the web site. Satoshi Nakamoto is not a marketer!
The word of god blockchain is not mentioned. Satoshi Namakoto identifies the words in the block and the chain, and have a chain of hash-based proof-of-work. But, yes, bekt a little less good.
Fact 4: a single Bitcoin was, after all, more than two months to live
Probably Satoshi Nakamoto’s already hard to make bitcoin work before the paper was published. After a little more than two months, was the bitcoin network is already live. On the 3rd of January minede Satoshi Nakamoto of the first, transcatieblok.
This is transactieblok is also known as the genesis block. This segment is always stored on the blockchain. In this section you will find the only, the first 50 bitcoin, which gemined it. At the time, that Satoshi, computer aanzwengelde, there was only one person on the network: he.
Fact 5: There is a lot to be donated to the Satoshi
This, which is the first 50 bitcoins were sent to a receiving address what is likely to be Satoshi Nakamoto is. However, we are looking to address, we find more than 50 of bitcoin.
Yet, every day, to send bitcoin to users all over the world in bitcoin to this address. As a sort of “thank you” to Satoshi Nakamoto. At this moment, there are more than 68 of the bitcoin to the address. At the time of writing, this is good for the 559.844 of the euro. You can still have a nice broom closet to buy in the Area.”
If you would like to have the bitcoin white paper, you take a look? Check out the English version here.