Photo byKanchanara onUnsplash On October 31, 2008, the mysterious figure Satoshi Nakamoto released an unprecedented paper titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” The timing was uncanny. The US and the world were still reeling from the worst financial crisis in a long time—since the Great Depression. Today, fifteen years since the Bitcoin white paper was published and fourteen since the first Bitcoin block was mined, the pioneering cryptocurrency is still going strong. It’s been through many challenging cycles. Through it all, it continues to threaten the dominance of the same …

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