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In January 2009, while most people were going about their ordinary lives, a programmer named Hal Finney sat at his computer downloading software that would change financial history. After several crashes and restarts, he finally got Bitcoin running and mined 50 of the first coins ever created. Though worthless at the time, Hal speculated they might one day be worth millions if Bitcoin became the world's dominant payment system. This wasn't just wishful thinking-Bitcoin emerged as a direct response to the 2008 financial crisis, with its first transaction block containing a New York Times headline about bank bailouts encoded within it. The message was clear: here was an alternative to government-controlled currencies that had failed so many. Bitcoin's creator, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, had solved a problem that had stumped cryptographers for decades: how to create digital money that couldn't be copied or double-spent without relying on central authorities. The solution was revolutionary-a public ledger (the blockchain) maintained across thousands of computers worldwide, with new transactions added through a competitive computational process that rewarded successful "miners" with newly created bitcoins. What made Bitcoin truly different wasn't just its technical design but its philosophical underpinning. Here was money with a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins-immune to the inflationary policies that had eroded savings throughout history. For early adopters, this wasn't merely a new payment method; it represented nothing less than the separation of money and state.
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