Crypto has now evolved beyond bitcoin and its libertarian roots. With the rise of Ethereum and many other protocols, the focus is less on notions of private currencies and more on how the technology can be used for different applications. So while decentralisation remains an important component, the wider community is less maximalist about it and t... See more

This presented the idea of Bitcoin, a “peer-to-peer electronic cash” representing the first public, permissionless, cryptographically secure peer-to-peer protocol.