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Crypto History

Welcome to our time machine. Here thou shalt find crypto lore of the ancient past.

Learn about cryptos which are no longer with us (see also Dead Coins section), the early beginnings of the crypto movement, the political ideas/movements that influenced cipherpunks and crypto hackers to create the first cryptocurrencies, interesting facts from the early days and other stuff that help us better understand where cryptocurrencies came from and where we might be headed next.

Bitcoin: The mother of all cryptocurrencies
On January 12 2009, an individual, or group, using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, announced that the first Bitcoin transaction had taken place. Ten Bitcoins had been magically...

Early Bird Gets the Bitcoin!
An 11 year old author has attracted the attention of the cryptocurrency world with a new book entitled Early Bird Gets The Bitcoin: The Ultimate Guide To Everything About Bitcoin ...

ELI5: What is Crypto Anarchism?
Crypto Anarchism is a political ideology which advocates the use of strong cryptography as an instrument for the promotion of Anarchy, including unrestricted personal freedoms and...

ELI5 First, second, third and fourth generation cryptocurrencies [2023 Update]
Although the theoretical building blocks that form cryptocurrencies existed prior to 2009, it was only in January of that year that Bitcoin registered the first ever transaction o...

ELI5 Antshares [ANS] [NEO]
Antshares is Chinese project NEO's previous name. When originally released it was informally nicknamed "China's Ethereum" platform. Legendary ICO Antshares was one of the mo...

Alpereum Ethereum Mining Pool [Closed 2017]
Alpereum was an Ethereum mining pool that ran from May 2016 to late 2017. As of November 2017 Bitcointalk users reported that the pool had likely been shut down. No unfair p...

The alleged Craig's Wright vs David Kleiman email uses a unique subject string which is being used to pin it to March 2008
They say truth can be stranger than fiction, but nothing we've seen in the cryptocurrency Wild West is stranger than the story of David Kleiman vs. Dr. Craig S. Wright and the $11...

Why are there so many cryptocurrencies?
Why so many cryptocurrencies? Are all of them as complex as Bitcoin? Currently, the Crypto.BI cryptocurrency list has over 1993 entries. What's behind this crypto diversity? Pe...

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? We don't know and neither does anybody else. But we've got some ideas about who he might be, since there aren't too many people out there who possess the ...

Understand distributed ledgers and the importance of financial decentralization
What's the hype around decentralization all about? Why is it important? Why do we want decentralization, when centralized financial institutions seem to be working just fine? T...

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Bitcoin - Bitcoin is the world's first viable decentralized cryptocurrency. It was released on January 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Hal Finney - Hal Finney was a cryptographer who pioneered the development of Bitcoin. Finney received the first ever Bitcoin transfer.
SHA256 - SHA256 is an encryption routine which produces a unique and irreversible digest for a given message.
Cipherpunks - Cipherpunks or cypherpunks are individuals who believe in cryptography as a tool to promote privacy and individual sovereignty. Cipherpunk ideals can be identified at the early roots of cryptocurrency development.
crypto anarchism
First Generation Cryptocurrencies - The first generation cryptocurrencies was spawned by Bitcoin. Several Bitcoin forks exist on this generation. Most 1st generation coins simply copied the Bitcoin source code while modifying the encryption algorithms and total coin supply.
Second Generation Cryptocurrencies - The second generation of cryptocurrencies added on-chain smart contracts and fully featured contract programming languages. Ethereum, which is the most notable 2nd generation cryptocurrency, brought smart contracts and introduced tokens to the masses, spawning the wave of ICO's from 2014 onwards.
Third Generation Cryptocurrencies - Third Generation Cryptocurrencies are still being developed. These include everything from second gen cryptos, plus on-chain governance, delegated Proof of Stake consensus and native compliance features. Cardano is a notable example of 3rd gen cryptocurrency project.
ERC20 Tokens - ERC20 is an Ethereum standard interface for cryptocurrency token implementation. A smart contract which complies with the ERC20 standard automatically gets detected as a token on the Ethereum blockchain. The ERC20 standard sparked an entire industry where creating a new coin (token, to be accurate) was a matter of publishing a smart contract to the blockchain.

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