Bitcoin is the decentralized digital currency that launched in 2009 but has been getting a lot of attention lately as its price soars. It's somewhere around $56-60,000 when I'm writing this post.
It is known that the first known commercial transaction using it was in 2010 when programmer Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins. Clearly, it was not worth as much back then. I read that in 2010 it went from $0.008 to a leap of around 8 cents.
The domain name bitcoin.org was registered in August 2008. That October a link to a paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" was posted to a cryptography mailing list. It has been more than a dozen years and we still don't know the identity of its creator other than the pseudonym he/she/they used - Satoshi Nakamoto.
It's not that people haven't tried to figure out Nakamoto's identity. but there hasn't been convincing proof or who the creator was - though some people have said that they were the creator of Bitcoin.
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