Bitcoin is the first package and gained significance when pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper. There are history and story behide/before this cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. And blockchain now, can apply to many industry and may be can change the world. Let see the timeline.
- 1991: Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta described the first work on a cryptographically secured chain of blocks
- 1992: Bayer, Haber and Stornetta incorporated Merkle trees to the blockchain as an efficiency improvement to be able to collect several documents into one block.
- 1998: Wei Dai, introducing the concept of B-money (anonymous, distributed electronic cash system).
- 2008: package and gained significance when pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper
○ solved the problem of double spending, Bitcoin relies on universal ledger that called blockchain.
- ○ a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party
- 2009: to test the Bitcoin client and strengthen the network. Hal Finney was the first recipient of a non-mined Bitcoin transfer when Satoshi sent him 10 BTC as a test.
- 2015: Ethereum is a decentralized software platform that enables Smart Contracts and Distributed Applications (ĐApps) to be built and run without any downtime, fraud, control or interference from a third party.
