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Benzinga
Benzinga
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Murtuza Merchant

A Look At Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin Whitepaper And How Blockchain Came Into Existence

In October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto — a pseudonym used by the developer or developers of bitcoin — published a whitepaper detailing how an alternative electronic cash system could permit payments to be sent directly from one party to another, without involving a financial institution.

The document, titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," provided an overlook of how key aspects of Bitcoin (BTC) could support a trustless electronic cash system by using cryptographic proof.

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