The world’s number one cryptocurrency per market capitalization, Bitcoin (BTC), has earned several Guinness World Records titles, including the oldest and the first decentralized cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin has been written into this famous book as the first decentralized cryptocurrency, “developed as a solution to the challenge of regulating a digital currency without any centralized organization, or "trusted third party", to oversee transactions,” says the entry.
The entry mentioned that its pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto published the whitepaper in 2008, with a working implementation of the concept being completed and an open-source client released to the public in 2009.
The world’s number one crypto has been mentioned in 17 of the book entries in total. These include:
First blockchain: January 2009, launched by Nakamoto;
Oldest cryptocurrency: 13 years
First Bitcoin transaction: January 12, 2009, Nakamoto transferred BTC 10 to Hal Finney, an American software developer;
First...
Your content is great. However, if any of the content contained herein violates any rights of yours, including those of copyright, please contact us immediately by e-mail at media[@]kissrpr.com.
INN caught up with cryptocurrency investment expert Dan Hoover to review the current landscape and where the market may be heading. The cryptocurrency investment marketplace has gone through severa...