Could Bitcoin have launched in the 1990s — Or was it waiting for Satoshi?
With the Internet, elliptic curve cryptography, even Merkle trees and PoW protocols all present, Bitcoin was “technically possible” in 1994. This year, Oct. 31 marked the 14th anniversary of the issuance of one of this century’s most consequential white papers — Satoshi Nakamoto’s “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Its 2008 publication set off a “revolution in finance” and “heralded a new era for money, one that did not derive its value from governmental edict but rather from technological proficiency and ingenuity,” as NYDIG celebrated in its Nov. 4 newsletter.Many aren’t....
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The recent Craig Wright-Satoshi Nakamoto debacle has spurred a new discussion as to what should happen with the coins mined by the mysterious Bitcoin creator. Theymos, the owner of BitcoinTalk, feels these coins should be destroyed to “prevent disastrous monetary inflation.” Bitcoin aficionados will know that, when Bitcoin was first launched, only....
Satoshi Nakamoto's broke a three year long silence, telling the world he is not Dorian Nakamoto (photo). Every post he made can be found in the database of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Satoshi Nakamoto remains an obscure figure to most people that are involved in cryptocurrencies. As the creator of Bitcoin, he is the reason we are all here. You would not be reading this article if it weren't for him. Heck, I would not have written this text, and we would probably think virtual currencies could only exist in a galaxy far, far away. Inventor of Bitcoin. However, Nakamoto is real. Whether....
Ethereum 2.0 finally launched yesterday after months and even years of waiting. According to data from Dune Analytics, more than 900,000 ETH, worth over $500 million, was locked into Ethereum 2.0’s Beacon Chain. This is 166% more than the threshold of 524,288 coins required to launch the upgrade. There were 2,700 unique depositors running over 20,000 validator nodes. Ethereum 2.0 Launch Stats Ethereum 2.0 finally launched yesterday. After months of waiting, the first phase of […]
Just recently three previously unpublished emails from Bitcoin’s inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, have been made public. The emails reveal the correspondence between Satoshi and the early Bitcoin developer Hal Finney. The communications between Nakamoto and Finney stem from November 2008 and January 2009, the very month Bitcoin was launched. On November 27, three emails that have never been seen before were made public in an editorial written by Michael Kaplikov, a professor at Pace University. According to Kaplikov, the emails derived from the New York Times contributor Nathaniel....
Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of bitcoin, has a lot of coins that remain unspent. What is he or she likely to do with them, and how might it affect the bitcoin universe? This article was inspired by a CoinDesk commenter, who worried that we don't know much about Satoshi's intentions. "That hoard gives him way, way, way too much potential influence and wealth," they said. Satoshi certainly has a lot of funds. Bitcoin security consultant Sergio Lerner's oft-cited analysis puts the figure at around 1m BTC, based on the early mining that he or she did. Most of those coins were....