bitcoin
Behold the Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency; whether you're a skeptic or a bitcoin believer, get the lowdown on this controversial coin.
The Worth and Wealth of an Idea
The doors to the street opened. The rush of traffic buzzed. Endless streams of honking, muffled by the shuffling sounds of city life. Tony reached into his pocket for his lighter. Lighting his cigarette, he let out a gut-wrenching sigh, staring up at the sky asking the proverbial, “Why me?”
By Dallas Jackson Gold5 years ago in The Chain
A Letter From a Hacker
Dear Satoshi, Your dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet. Apparently, you didn’t configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010. You are not safe. You need to get out of where you are as soon as possible before these people harm you.
By Joe Audsley5 years ago in The Chain
Barlton & Company
The first trillionaire, Casey Barlton, with an alabaster smile and sharp, almost bony features, sat at his computer in his studio apartment in Wilmington, Delaware, eating a bowl of cereal, his blue-black skin illuminated by the monitor’s glow.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in The Chain
The Blockchain Stallion
In Dover, Delaware, in 2008, a silver van with the words “Teach to Grow” pulled up to the home of fifteen-year-old Greg Gallo. Out of it emerged the teenager. He had autism. He could speak six different languages and had memorized sections of Shakespeare, but he had trouble making eye contact while he spoke to other people. Instead he would sit at his computer looking at his hands, hands that were typing an entire network of cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in The Chain
Bitcoin And An Incredible Story: Why We Don't Know Who Created The World's Most Important Digital Currency
He is Satoshi Nakamoto, who published a white paper in 2009 in which he described the characteristics that a "purely digital version of electronic money" should have, which he called Bitcoin. "It is one of the most important works of computer science in the last 20 or 30 years," does not hesitate to define Jack Dorsey, CEO and founder of Twitter, who describes that document as "poetry".
By creatorsklub5 years ago in The Chain
Who Created Bitcoin and Why?
What is Bitcoin? Obviously joking here. If you are not familiar with the most popular cryptocurrency, you must be quite disconnected from the world. Which is not a bad thing in all fairness given everything that is happening (Covid-19 much?). But c'mon man, as Joe Biden would say, even your grandma has heard of Bitcoin. It is insanely popular these days. Everybody is talking about it. From TikTok teenagers (and their bad personal advice) to BlackRock executives. You cannot just ignore it any more. For those of us that have been close to the crypto markets since the early days, it has been a dramatic rise. Even more dramatic if you were here when Bitcoin was below $100 and did not buy into it. But is that worse than having bought into it and losing access to your wallet? That’s debatable. But maybe with the recent price rally, you are just wondering: what’s going on with Bitcoin? And you might also be thinking: who created Bitcoin and why?
By Fintech Review5 years ago in The Chain
How to Buy Bitcoin — Step One
The best way to learn about bitcoin, is to jump in and get a few in your “pocket” to get a feel for how they work. Despite the hype about how difficult and dangerous it can be, getting bitcoins is a lot easier and safer than you might think. In a lot of ways, it is probably easier than opening an account at a traditional bank. And, given what has been happening in the banking system, it is probably safer too.
By mark sheppard5 years ago in The Chain
The Bitcoin Lady
She had just finished changing from her gi to her smart red blouse and black skirt. A petite five-feet, three inches tall, the seventy-four year-old was a second degree black belt who had been practicing and sparring at the same dojo in Newark, Delaware. It was about one o’clock in the afternoon, and her grandkids were due home from school soon, so she would need to be leaving the dojo, and heading there to meet them. That’s when it came to her, a name for her alias behind the cryptocurrency Bitcoin: she would call herself Satashi Nakamoto.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in The Chain
Here, Have a Bit of Coin
Georgie placed four coins on the table to purchase the Loaf of Bread card. It was a steep charge, but with the inflation during game play and how desperate his player was, he couldn't afford to not buy the card, not knowing when the next food card would be played. Buying this card replenished his player's life force from a one to a three. Ideally, he wanted to be at a five going into the final round, but he would take what he could get.
By L. M. Williams5 years ago in The Chain
Anticipated Trail of Bitcoin! (The Mystery of Bitcoin Challenge)
Bitcoin is digital money concocted in 2008 by an obscure individual or gathering of individuals utilizing the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The cash started to use in 2009 when its usage was delivered as open-source programming. But, it's actually a mystery to date that the inventor of this Bitcoin and his detailed biography nor his identity and the motive couldn't be established or even believed to be true at times since regulatory mechanisms are not studied in depth so far nor strengthened in countries to monitor and regulate. However, Bitcoin has been emerging as another professional means of currency exchange competing with other already currencies across the world.
By Madhu Kumar C5 years ago in The Chain
Can Ethereum Outrun Bitcoin?
On April 28, 2013, the day that the first Bitcoin-led crypto cracks began to be traded, the price of a Bitcoin was $134.21. There was no trading volume, but the market value was reaching $1.5 billion. Ethereum did not exist at the time, because it was only launched in July 2015, two years later.
By Casimiro Filipe 5 years ago in The Chain
