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Cryptocurrencies
- Proof of personhoodIn 2014, a distributed system researcher named Borge published a paper describing how fake identities could overwhelm online networks.
- CryptocurrencyCryptocurrency is a type of digital asset that exists entirely outside the traditional banking system, secured not by vaults or governments but by…
- BitcoinBitcoin arrived in the world not with a press release or a bank announcement, but with a white paper posted to a cryptography mailing list on the 31st of…
- CryptoNoteIn the summer of 2012, a digital document appeared online with no author signature. The text described a new method for securing cryptocurrency transactions…
- PeercoinAn August 2012 paper introduced a new digital currency to the world. The document listed two names as its creators, Scott Nadal and Sunny King.
- LitecoinCharlie Lee released Litecoin via an open-source client on GitHub on the 7th of October 2011. The network went live six days later on the 13th of October…
- StablecoinThe year 2014 marked the first appearance of stablecoins, a new type of cryptocurrency designed to solve a specific problem for investors.
- Nano (cryptocurrency)Colin LeMahieu began developing RaiBlocks in 2014 to solve Bitcoin's scalability issues. He launched the project publicly in October 2015 with a unique…
- Proof of stakePeercoin launched in 2012 as the first functioning proof-of-stake cryptocurrency. This system selected validators based on their holdings of the associated…
- Initial coin offeringJuly 2013 marked the birth of a new financial instrument when Mastercoin held its first token sale. This event laid the groundwork for what would become…
- Legality of cryptocurrency by country or territoryIn 2013, the People's Bank of China issued its first regulatory step by prohibiting financial institutions from handling bitcoin transactions.
- Mining poolIn November 2010, a service named Slush launched and became the first mining pool in history. Before this moment, individual miners faced an impossible…
- NamecoinIn September 2010, a discussion began on the BitcoinTalk forum about a hypothetical system called BitDNS. Gavin Andresen and Satoshi Nakamoto joined this…
- Proof of workProof of work sits at the heart of Bitcoin, the technology that turned a whitepaper into a global currency network. But the idea is decades older than…
- Cryptocurrency exchangeA cryptocurrency exchange functions as a business that allows customers to trade digital currencies for other assets. These platforms accept credit card…
- Meme coinIn late 2013, software engineers released Dogecoin as a joke based on the popular Doge internet meme. This single event sparked the creation of an entirely…
- AlgorandSilvio Micali founded Algorand in 2017 while serving as a computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- DogecoinOn the 6th of December 2013, software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer introduced a new digital currency to the world.
- GPU miningGraphics Processing Units calculate cryptographic hashes to verify transactions on a decentralized ledger. Miners receive rewards for performing this…
- IOTA (technology)In 2015, four researchers named David Sønstebø, Dominik Schiener, Sergey Ivancheglo, and Serguei Popov created a new digital currency called IOTA.
- MoneroIn October 2013, a document titled CryptoNote v2 appeared online. It described privacy and anonymity as the most important aspects of electronic cash.
- Security token offeringA public offering of digital securities known as a security token offering began circulating in the financial world. These tokens functioned like traditional…