A white paper just 9 pages long launched the entire cryptocurrency industry.
First, what happened: On January 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin block.
The logic behind it: Nakamoto’s design combined proof of work, blocks linked end to end, and economic incentives, allowing unfamiliar nodes to reach consensus on a shared ledger.
$BTC is the currency in the system Nakamoto designed. Currently: 83937.63.
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