Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper turns 10

On Oct. 31, 2008 an unknown person or group of people known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper called "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." 

Ten years later, we still don't know the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, but pretty much everyone knows about Bitcoin. 

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Bitcoin has had plenty of good days and plenty of bad days in the last decade. Its price has reached crazy heights (nearly $20,000 at its peak in Dec. 2017), and fallen into the gutter — numerous times. It's been lauded as the future of money, and it's been called a pyramid scheme and a fraud. And while it hasn't fulfilled the lofty of promises made by its evangelists yet, ten years after its inception it still endures.  Read more...

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