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    Origin Stories

    Fascinating tales of Bitcoin's early days, creators, and pioneers.

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    Thumbnail for The Faucet That Gave Away 5 Bitcoin: A Look Back at 2010
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    In 2010, lead developer Gavin Andresen created a website that gave away 5 whole Bitcoin to anyone who solved a simple captcha. Here is the story of the first Bitcoin faucet.

    Thumbnail for The Cypherpunks Who Dreamed of Digital Cash
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    Bitcoin wasn't invented in a vacuum. It was the culmination of a 20-year ideological struggle by a group of cryptographers known as the Cypherpunks.

    Thumbnail for How a Coffee Shop in Prague Became a Bitcoin Citadel
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    In 2014, a small espresso bar in the Czech Republic made a radical decision: they stopped accepting government currency entirely.

    Thumbnail for The Halloween PDF That Rewrote the Rules of Money: A Story of the Bitcoin White Paper
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    On a cold Halloween night in 2008, a mysterious figure shared a nine-page document that would eventually challenge the world's most powerful banks. This is the story of the Bitcoin white paper.

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