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Benzinga
Benzinga
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Murtuza Merchant

Bitcoin: Born Out Of A Financial Crisis, Will It Survive The Next One?

The world’s first digital currency, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has been the harbinger of a new financial order with the potential to survive any crisis if history is to be believed.

Originally described in 1991 by the research scientist Stuart Haber and cryptographer W. Scott Stornetta, the earliest version of blockchain technology was designed so as to introduce a computationally practical solution for time-stamping digital documents that could not be tampered with.

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