Category: History
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Bitcoin and the Open Source Revolution
Open source started with the free software foundation, founded to defend the rights and freedoms of software users. Today, open source software is being used and developed by billions of individuals, and across all industries. Just like the free software foundation that inspired the more pragmatic open source movement, Bitcoin too started as an ideologically-driven…
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Bitcoin in 21 pictures
In this article we try to introduce some of the many aspects of Bitcoin in 21 images and captions. We attempt to give an overview of Bitcoin as a money and a payment network, as well as its historical, economic, environmental and societal context. 🔽 Links Images Posted at block 792272
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The Genesis Block
Today marks the 14th anniversary since the launch of the Bitcoin network. Now come to be known as the Genesis block, it refers to the first block ever mined on the Bitcoin network by anonymous computer scientist Satoshi Nakamoto on 3rd January 2009. 14 years after its inception, the Bitcoin network has lived up to…
Bitcoin Bumblebee 