Satoshi Nakamoto
We don't know who Satoshi Nakamoto was. We don't know if Satoshi was male or female, a single person or a group of people—we don't even know why Satoshi created Bitcoin. But here's what we do know.| NAKAMOTO
We don't know who Satoshi Nakamoto was. We don't know if Satoshi was male or female, a single person or a group of people—we don't even know why Satoshi created Bitcoin. But here's what we do know.| NAKAMOTO
A free course on cryptocurrencies for developers. Covers history, cryptographic foundations, networking, consensus, game theory, Bitcoin, Ethereum.| NAKAMOTO
An introduction to decentralized finance. Covers stablecoins, composability, decentralized lending, dexes, and identity.| NAKAMOTO
Zcash encrypts data on a public blockchain much like HTTPS encrypts data on the public internet.| NAKAMOTO
Bitcoin's P2P network comes with its own unique challenges: bootstrapping your initial peers, defending against spam, and ensuring network-level privacy.| NAKAMOTO
Gnutella was one of the first decentralized P2P protocols to take off after the death of Napster. It's a direct predecessor to Bitcoin's networking design.| NAKAMOTO
Bitcoin is built atop the shoulders of the early P2P file sharing protocols. And the history of P2P file sharing starts with the grandfather of all massive P2P protocols, Napster.| NAKAMOTO
Without public key cryptography, Bitcoin would be impossible. It lays the foundation for digital identities and cryptographically enforced property rights.| NAKAMOTO
To understand Bitcoin's consensus mechanism and the concept of proof-of-work, we first have to understand Hashcash.| NAKAMOTO
