The birth date of bitcoin is considered October 31, 2008.
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Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" was published, in which Satoshi Nakamoto first spoke about digital signature protection, payments without the participation of a third party, sanity checks, blockchain and about digital currency.
Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency, but not the only one today. Altcoins are all cryptocurrencies that appeared after Bitcoin. Most cryptocurrencies provide pseudonymity - all transactions between all addresses are public, but there is no data about the owners of the addresses.
Cryptocurrency is a kind of digital currency, accounting for the internal units of account of which is provided by a decentralized payment system operating in a fully automatic mode. The transfer of cryptocurrencies is irreversible - no one can cancel, block, challenge or force (without a private key) a transaction.
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