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Learn Bitcoin and Blockchain
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Learn Bitcoin and Blockchain

by Kirankalyan Kulkarni
August 2018
Beginner to intermediate
94 pages
2h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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History of Bitcoin

Bitcoin was conceptualized by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. We do not know whether it is a person or a group of people. This anonymous person or group of persons still remains a mystery. What we know is that Nakamoto has claimed to be a man living in Japan born on April 15th, 1975. However, there are a lot of theories and speculation about the identity of Nakamoto. Some people say that the identity of Nakamoto is based on a number of cryptography and computer science experts living in the US and the EU, not necessarily Japanese people. In November 2017, Nakamoto was believed to own up to roughly 1 million Bitcoins, the value of this 1 million comes to be 7.2 billion US dollars, which is a huge amount of money owned by someone ...

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