On Oct. 31, 2008, at 2:10 p.m. EDT, the creator of the Bitcoin network, Satoshi Nakamoto, announced the publication of the protocol’s whitepaper using a It’s been ten years since the day Nakamoto’s idea was revealed to the world which unleashed the first pure peer-to-peer version of electronic cash.

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