@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Although these earlier digital currencies worked, they were centralized and, as
Bitcoin was((("Bitcoin", "history of")))((("history", "of Bitcoin", secondary-sortas="Bitcoin")))((("Nakamoto, Satoshi"))) first described in 2008 with the publication of a
paper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash
System,"footnote:[https://oreil.ly/KUaBM["Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"],
Satoshi Nakamoto (see <<satoshi_whitepaper>>).] written under the
Satoshi Nakamoto.] written under the
alias of Satoshi Nakamoto (see <<satoshi_whitepaper>>). Nakamoto
combined several prior inventions such as digital signatures and Hashcash to create
a completely decentralized electronic cash system that does not rely on
@ -122,11 +122,8 @@ increased exponentially, and their combined computational power now
exceeds the combined number of computing operations of the
world's top supercomputers.
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Satoshi Nakamoto withdrew from the public in April 2011, leaving the responsibility of developing the code and network to a thriving group of volunteers. The identity of the person or people behind Bitcoin is still unknown. However, neither Satoshi Nakamoto nor anyone else exerts individual control over the Bitcoin system, which operates based on fully transparent mathematical principles, open source code, and consensus among participants. The invention itself is groundbreaking and has already spawned new science in the fields of distributed computing, economics, and econometrics.