The history of Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the first and, to date, the most successful application of blockchain technology. Bitcoins were introduced in 2008, in a paper on Bitcoin called Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf), which was authored by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Bitcoin was the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency; its introduction heralded a revolution, and, in just about a decade, it has proved its strengths, with huge community backing and widespread adoption.
From 2010, certain global businesses have started to accept Bitcoins, with the exception of fiat currencies. A lot of currency exchanges were founded to let people exchange Bitcoin with fiat currency or with other cryptocurrencies. In September 2012, the Bitcoin Foundation was launched to accelerate the global growth of Bitcoin through standardization, protection, and promotion of the open source protocol.
A lot of payment gateways such as BitPay came up to facilitate merchants in accepting...
