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Satoshi Nakamoto - alias Bitcoin creator. The whole world is lost in the mysteries of his true identity. Satoshi made Bitcoin in the 2008th year.
Every day, about 3,600 new Bitcoins. Coins are the result of a process called "mining".
The first Bitcoin-transaction took place January 21, 2009 Satoshi moved another 100 BTC tsiferpanku and cryptography named Hal Finney (Hal Finney)
In order to carry out a large number of attempts to reveal the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, but so far have not been successful. The latest version has caused a great response, but this was quickly denied.
Within 5 years, the Bitcoin price has increased from $ 0 to $ 1,000.
The first million Bitcoins Satoshi came personally and, apparently, still belongs to him. Researchers are still trying to find wallets Nakamoto, to get on his trail, but Satoshi keeps calm.
In 2140 the latter will be released Bitcoin.
21 million - the maximum amount of Bitcoins, which will be ever created. Today, about 12 million were produced. The algorithm reduces the amount of coins found in the extract 2 times every few years so that the uneven process.
Attempts to create the physical equivalent of Bitcoin (in the form of coins). In fact Casascius - it is nothing like "cool" printed on their wallets access code key only holographic cast in the form factor of the coin. This coin Casascius we see all these beautiful pictures with "coins» Bitcoin.
Miniature island of Alderney jurisdiction and announced plans to stamping physical equivalents of Bitcoin.
Only 36% of produced coins were seen in any transaction. The remaining 64% after the administration has not hitherto been used.
In contrast to physical money, the whole history of moving any funds from one account to another, permanently sealed inside Blockchain - global and distributed completely open database containing information about all the Bitcoin-wallets worldwide.
In the current code Bitcoin 77000. lines of code, of which 70 thousand are written in C ++. And in the very first working version numbered 0.1.0 it was only 14 thousand. Lines of code in C ++. This is a very small project by today's standards. For example, Linux kernel code has more than 15 million lines of code.
Bloomberg journalist who is not familiar with safety regulations the Bitcoin, accidentally revealed the secret key (in the form of a QR-code) your wallet Bitcoin-live. To this end, immediately paid the price - his money had been stolen by one of the audience, but then, according to rumors, the money was returned to the journalist.
When the pressure of the state cut off WikiLeaks donations via bank transfer, the site instantly switched to receive donations in Bitcoins.
The guy from Norway named Christopher Koch, Bitcoins bought in 2009 for $ 27 and forgotten about them, and when he remembered that his investment has risen to 886 thousand dollars.
The first Bitcoin-ATM was installed in the Canadian city of Vancouver.
The biggest drop Bitcoin exchange rate by 80% within 24 hours occurred in April 2013 ..
In November 2013, the price of Bitcoin has exceeded for the first time the price of gold.
927 people own 50% of all Bitcoin.
Lamborghini was the first automotive company in the world, which dealers began to accept Bitcoin.
Skycraft aircraft were the first to sell planes for Bitcoins.
In addition to Bitcoin already has more than 150 various other cryptocurrency. Create your cryptocurrency can now each.
Bitcoin can earn just by playing Counter Strike. The largest prize pool in the history of StarCraft 2 was also collected through Bitcoin.