Before the birth of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency existed as a theoretical notion. Several attempts to build digital currencies were made prior to the current version though they all failed to garner popular support.
In the early 1980s, Digicash was founded by American computer scientist and cryptographer David Chaum. Probably the first prominent digital currency, Digicash went bankrupt in the 1990s as it failed to persuade banks to embrace its technology.
Bitcoin was launched almost a decade later.Here’s a look at some of the most notable events in the history of cryptocurrencies:2008: Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious designer of Bitcoin, publishes a white paper called “Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer Electronic Cash System”. Based on the concept
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