Bitcoin for the open-minded skeptic - Paradigm

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

After years of innovative trial and error by many programmers, and through relying on a wide range of technologies, Bitcoin was the first engineering solution that allowed for digital payments without having to rely on a trusted third‐party intermediary. By being the first digital object that is verifiably scarce, Bitcoin is the first example of di

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-BTC worked well as store of value in the sense that there's more and more people that accept it as such. Data supports that it is being used in countries with unstable currencies