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In November 1, 2008, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.
Wired Top Stories jmckeel 2011
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He says there is no center to the whole bitcoin system.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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When we started working on this story, $7 got you one bitcoin.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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But slowly, word of bitcoin spread beyond the insular world of cryptography.
Wired Top Stories jmckeel 2011
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We talked with Gavin Andresen, a programmer whose done a lot of work on bitcoin.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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We talked with Gavin Andresen, a programmer whose done a lot of work on bitcoin.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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When we started working on this story, $7 got you one bitcoin.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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He says there is no center to the whole bitcoin system.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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He looks up the exchange rate, $17 per bitcoin, and gives us 2.352941176 bitcoins.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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He looks up the exchange rate, $17 per bitcoin, and gives us 2.352941176 bitcoins.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Given the two studies, bitcoin certainly looks vulnerable to quantum attack earlier than was previously known, says Scott Aaronson at the University of Texas at Austin.
The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close Karmela Padavic-Callaghan 2026
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The particulars of how this mathematical problem is solved made it a good candidate for encrypting data and led to its widespread adoption for securing lots of internet communication, including bank transactions, and nearly every major cryptocurrency, including bitcoin.
The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close Karmela Padavic-Callaghan 2026
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In their study, researchers at Google and the Ethereum Foundation suggested that the first sign Q-Day has happened may be a hacker stealing cryptocurrency such as bitcoin by intercepting a transaction or targeting old and idle wallets.
Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K Karmela Padavic-Callaghan 2026
alexz commented on the word bitcoin
s bitcoin is a piece of online currency. It's a decentralized online currency which relies on encryption to ensure that a coin has value.
It is used in an online market service on the Tor network where illegal items and services can be bought and sold.
January 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bitcoin
It is headed (& entail (out) spinning) toward analogical (rune-in) ruin?!
Digit points but is not 'is'!
Rue(l) out is in!
a paradox- a pair of (d)ox(i)s! (plowing boustraphedrically)?
April 13, 2013
TankHughes commented on the word bitcoin
internet money?
May 29, 2015