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China’s Changing Perception of Bitcoin: Bitkan CEO Shares Insights After 7 Years in Crypto Industry
20.3.2020
Since the advent of bitcoin in 2009, cryptocurrencies have gone from being a niche topic for tech nerds to ubiquitously recognized — if not always understood — staples of modern finance. Bitkan CEO Liu Yang recently took some time out to give news.Bitcoin.com a peek into the Chinese...
Bitcoin Tested as a Safe Haven After Biggest Stock Crash Since 2009
9.3.2020
Global markets imploded as the trading week started, providing Bitcon’s another opportunity to prove its status as a store of value asset
A Deep Dive Into Satoshi’s 11-Year Old Bitcoin Genesis Block
3.1.2020
11 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network at approximately 18:15:05 UTC and the world hasn’t been the same since. The Bitcoin blockchain came to life on January 3, 2009, and so far, more than 600,000 blocks have been mined into existence. Nakamoto’s genesis block...
Early Cypherpunk Emails Reveal a Blueprint for Bitcoin
3.1.2020
The cypherpunks, a ragtag group of tech tinkerers, cryptographers, and privacy advocates, were obscure in their 1990s heyday. And it would have remained that way in perpetuity were it not for a certain Satoshi Nakamoto launching a digital currency in 2009 encapsulating their core beliefs....
Bitcoin Transferred a Giant $11 Trillion Since 2009, New Data Reveals
25.10.2019
Bitcoin already has an $11 trillion history
The Evolution of Fundraising and Investments in the Blockchain Space
27.8.2019
When a little known cypherpunk project called Bitcoin launched in 2009, few expected that cryptocurrency would become a household name. The blockchain market exploded onto the global scene in 2017, reaching a fever pitch in December and peaking at over […]
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The Evolution of Cryptocurrency Payments
22.5.2019
On January 12, 2009, the first ever Bitcoin transaction between the still-elusive Satoshi Nakamoto and the late cryptocurrency pioneer Hal Finney was made. As Finney himself described in a forum post he made on March 2014, Nakamoto had sent him […]
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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
6.5.2019
Chris Zacharias published a few notes about why the team at YouTube added a banner that asked users to switch from IE6 to a more modern browser back in 2009:
The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint....