Bitcoin - A Brief History of the Bitcoin Project

In the fall of 2008, he really starts this conversation on the cyberpunk mailing list. He then goes to what seems like it then work on the code for Bitcoin. And then, you know, we have January 3, 2009, where he,you know, starts the Genesis block,. The blockchain that will eventually released on January the 9th and Bitcoin is sort of birth to the world. It's not until much later after Satoshi leaves because he's so mission critical to the entire design for his tenure.

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Pete Rizzo is going on 10 years as a Bitcoin journalist. He's Editor at Bitcoin Magazine, Editor-at-Large at the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, and a contributor at Forbes. Pete conducts archival research on Bitcoin's history, highlighting and identifying the people and events that most impacted its development. He is best known as a founding writer and editor for CoinDesk, serving as Editor in Chief from 2014 to 2019.

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