A Look at the First Phone-to-Phone Bitcoin Transfer Using a Nokia N900 Smartp...
When Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, the full node client came with a wallet often referred to as Bitcoin-Qt. Nakamoto’s simplified payment verification (SPV) concept was not available until two years later, after the former Bitcoin Core developer Mike Hearn published BitcoinJ in 2011. However, prior to the first SPV client or optimized lightweight bitcoin wallet, the first phone-to-phone bitcoin transaction occurred more than 11 years ago on December 7, 2010. Sending 0.42 Bitcoin From a Nokia N900 to Another Nokia N900 in 2010 Satoshi’s Bitcoin is nearing its....
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