Category: Satoshi Nakamoto
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Sleeping Bitcoins Worth $40 Million Move- Mystery Miner Spends Another 1,000 BTC From 2010 Block Rewards
On January 10, another strange string of 20 bitcoin block rewards from 2010 was spent after sitting idle for over ten years. The spending of 1,000 decade-old bitcoins worth over $39 million today, follows the recent string of 1,000 units transferred on the 12th anniversary of Bitcoin’s genesis block launch. Seven days ago an old-school…
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Bitcoin turning 12: From the Genesis block to Wall Street adoption
The Bitcoin network as we know it today officially kicked off exactly 12 years ago when Satoshi Nakamoto released the first software client.
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New Report Studies Satoshi Nakamoto’s Inconsistent British and American Writing Techniques
On December 31, 2020, a new report was published that studies Satoshi Nakamoto’s writing style, the creator’s use of expressions, and spelling. The new examination shows Satoshi’s spelling and American and British wording indicates it was very inconsistent and littered with misspellings as well. The research suggests the inconsistencies might have been done purposefully and…
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Billionaires, Teslas, and Satoshi: fun facts for Genesis Block Day
Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin block 12 years ago today.
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1,000 Decade-Old Dormant Bitcoins Moved Today on Bitcoin’s 12th Anniversary
12 years ago, Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto launched the network after revealing the cryptocurrency concept via the white paper a few months prior. At approximately 18:15:05 UTC, the network launched its first block and since then, over 664,000 bitcoin blocks have been mined. Moreover, on the 12th anniversary of the network coming to life, a…
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Bitcoin’s Inception: A 340-Page Book Compiles All of Satoshi’s Writings in Chronological Order
Bitcoin’s mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, first appeared on the web when the software programmer (or programmers) published the Bitcoin white paper on Halloween 2008. After the paper published and the crypto network launched, the inventor spent a little time with the community curating the project. People who are inspired by Nakamoto or like to research…
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Bitcoin Addresses Holding $1 Million Goes ‘Parabolic,’ 10% of BTC Supply Sits Idle for 10 Years
While bitcoin trades above the $20k handle, onchain data shows that the number of bitcoin addresses holding at least $1 million has climbed substantially increasing by more than 150%. Moreover, Glassnode’s statistics indicate that roughly 1.85 million bitcoin hasn’t moved in over a decade. At the time of publication, bitcoin (BTC) is hovering just below…
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Ten Years Ago Satoshi Nakamoto Logged Off – The Final Message from Bitcoin’s Inventor
Ten years ago today, the pseudonymous programmer (or programmers) Satoshi Nakamoto logged into the forum bitcointalk.org one last time, and left the Bitcoin community for good. The day prior Nakamoto wrote a final message to the crypto community by offering a quick build and telling developers that there’s more work to be done on denial-of-service…
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Researcher Publishes Never Before Seen Emails Between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney
Just recently three previously unpublished emails from Bitcoin’s inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, have been made public. The emails reveal the correspondence between Satoshi and the early Bitcoin developer Hal Finney. The communications between Nakamoto and Finney stem from November 2008 and January 2009, the very month Bitcoin was launched. On November 27, three emails that have…