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The Bitcoin revolution – How it all began | DW Documentary



Bitcoin is the world’s first cryptocurrency. It’s also the most important and popular of its kind. Launched in 2009, the Bitcoin blockchain’s creator used the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. His (or her) true identity remains a mystery to this day.

In early 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, someone named “Satoshi Nakamoto” started circulating Bitcoin. In doing so, they created the first decentralized and reliable cryptocurrency. Whoever they are, they vanished into thin air in 2011.

“The Satoshi Mystery” tells the thrilling story of how Bitcoin came to be. Examining blockchain technology from the perspective of its secretive creator, the film seeks answers about one of the most mysterious figures in the crypto world. But is “Satoshi Nakamoto really just one person? No one is certain. Theories abound, and there’s no way to rule out a collective. Some even suspect that the CIA could be behind Bitcoin.

One thing’s for sure: the Whitepaper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” is reshaping the world far beyond the creation of a new payment system.

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31 Comments

  1. Those without a computer or smart phone gets left out of the game as usual. Colonialization of any kind is not good for humanity. Better for those sentinelese who live off their sea and land until those resources too gets pulled out from under their feet by the rest. They may be lucky to be the last humans left on planet earth. I incline to think that the colony in Mars will start with bitcoins.

  2. Created during OBAMA TIME Who is Bitcoin? CHUAN TIAN. (JUL. 13, 2017). GOLDMAN SACHS [PAUL WALKER AND PHIL VENABLES] GRANTED ‘SETLCOIN’ CRYPTOCURRENCY PATENT. COINDESK
    VENABLES WAS AN INTERNATIONAL DELEGATE TO A HIGHLANDS GROUP FORUM IN SINGAPORE IN 2009.

  3. yep
    propaganda,

    cryptocurrencies behave like banking instruments. only the banks deal with fractional reserves, digital currency, complex calculating machines and global networks.

  4. Excellent documentary, but I have to task on that last notation, where bitcoin crashes from $67K to $16K. Look at the pricing chart of Amazon shares (or any other massive corporation) over time. You will see price swings that boggle the mind. How can an investor hold on, or invest for the first time after the many, massive drops in price in short periods of time? Yet, share prices come back and go to higher levels than anyone could imagine.

  5. Satoshi is a myth for an idea promoted by Americans wearing the guise of trendy techno-anarchists but in reality individuals out for their own self-enrichment. This is typical of American entrepreneurship and the con was to promote an idea similar in principle to the emperor's clothes and claim for it, a unique technology that few understood.
    Conceptualize an idea before it exists and by marrying cryptography with internet technologies, the media, finance people, and lawyers would not have the skills or knowledge to understand it. The techno elite bought into the idea because conceptually it enriches them, bitcoin requires processing power, memory and employs technologists, and in buying into the idea they developed it.

  6. A decade later and bitcoin still survives. The problem is that its very expensive to convert it to physical cash. If only Amazon,Alibaba etc accept it.

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