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The hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto

of excitement and controversy. According to Wired magazine, people have been trying to unmask the true identity of Bitcoin’s author(s) ever since. Silicon Valley titan Marc Andreessen recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Times explaining that the key innovation in Bitcoin is its solution to the Byzantine Generals problem.

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#Bitcoin #identity #software

A believer's pitch for Bitcoin

Well, some people say you can still get in before the real boom. Many are predicting the bitcoin to go from 200 to 360 in the next few months and eventually…

Man Buys $27 Of Bitcoin, Forgets About Them, Finds They're Now Worth $886k | Technology | Theguardian.com #people #Bitcoin #link

Bitcoin without banks

In traditional banking the banks keep a record of how much money you have. They deal with all the security to make sure people can't claim they have more…

Man Buys $27 Of Bitcoin, Forgets About Them, Finds They're Now Worth $886k | Technology | Theguardian.com #Bitcoin #computer

Bitcoin's value comes from scarcity

One one level it's basic economics; if there is a demand for something and it is scarce it's price goes up, the scarcer it gets the more it's value increases…

Man Buys $27 Of Bitcoin, Forgets About Them, Finds They're Now Worth $886k | Technology | Theguardian.com #Bitcoin #prices #transactions

Bitcoin, a currency no company controls

Bitcoins are an anonymous, decentralised, peer-to-peer digital currency.In contrast to older forms of electronic money, no company controls Bitcoin, nor ever…

Bitcoin: What You Need To Know | Technology | Theguardian.com #Bitcoin #transactions #companies

Mining bitcoin gets exponentially harder

To start it took 1000 calculations to reward a bitcoin, something easily achieved by one computer that was doing 100 calculations per second. However there…

Man Buys $27 Of Bitcoin, Forgets About Them, Finds They're Now Worth $886k | Technology | Theguardian.com #Bitcoin #computer #Internet #mining #billions

A rigorous foundation for version numbers

By identifying the rationale for these changes in the different abstraction layers, our work contributes to establish a rigorous foundation for software…

Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective #abstraction-layer #software #code