What was the idea behind the “proof of work” used in Bitcoin mining originally designed for?
Around the time Satoshi Nakamoto published the white paper in 2008, he emailed Adam Back to introduce the idea of Bitcoin.
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$BTC ’s mining method was inspired by Adam Back’s Hashcash concept.
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