Bitcoin Turns 16: From an Experiment to a Trillion Dollar Asset
Today marks the 16th birthday of Bitcoin’s foundational white paper, written by its pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. On October 31, 2008, Nakamoto had published a white paper with the title “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” on a cryptography mailing list. It thus described a dream for a decentralized, peer-to-peer network that would use a
