The Bitcoin network went live ten years ago today. In those very early days of Bitcoin, the nascent cryptocurrency was little more than a novelty. I don’t recall exactly when I learned of Bitcoin, but it was probably a couple years later. By that time, it was regarded as “magic Internet money,” a novelty that…
Bitcoin and Financial Censorship
On October 31, 2008, a user going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto sent a message to The Cryptography Mailing List about his new project, a fully peer-to-peer electronic cash system which he called Bitcoin. Though released to little fanfare, his white paper detailed a revolutionary system of distributed consensus. To the average Internet user, Satoshi’s…
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