Happy Birthday Bitcoin! Also, Ethereum has Reached 10 Million Unique Addresses!
Though of no real significant consequence, it goes to show how far cryptocurrencies have come. This coincidentally, on the same day of the Bitcoin's 9th birthday!
Today marks the anniversary of the release of the Bitcoin White Paper on the 31st of October, 2009! On that fateful day, Satoshi Nakamoto released the whitepaper for Bitcoin.
To imagine that just nine years later, Bitcoin is reaching all-time high of USD$6.3k per Bitcoin and is the talking point of major financial institutions is amazing!
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology is really a great place to be right now, and is frontier technology that has yet to show it's full impact on society. This is a really exciting space to be in, and at a wonderful time!
Bonus Quote
Though not really of relevance to the article, this quote is rather fitting to Blockchain Technology, especially in light of financial instutions talking a big game in regards to the technology. Thankfully, it seems the BLockchain Technology is, indeed based very much in reality and is proving that time and time again.
A little back story and context to the quote :
Feynman said this makes it all the more interesting and pertinent. This was following the 1986 Challenger Disaster, when a NASA space shuttle broke and crashed barely a minute after its takeoff. NASA was horrified, of course, and many scientific and government authorities launched investigations to figure out what went wrong. The problem was NASA wanted to conceal its operations and keep them confidential, supposedly to prevent greater cause for concern, and conducted its own internal investigations. Feynman was one of those scientists who were tasked with an independent, impartial investigation, and he took him a long time to get around the bureaucracy and secrecy of NASA's operations before he managed to identify the problem (ineffective O-Ring seals), and even then only with a tip from a friend working in NASA. He demonstrated the problem openly to the public and the relevant authorities, and successfully solved a problem that stumped many others. After the investigation, he would go on to say this quote. It's really meaningful because it shows that when doing science, Nature doesn't care about what other people think or how others perceive it. The best, most effective way to do science is to do it openly and impartially, rather than trying to hide things, because ultimately the truth is the truth and that's what science, and Nature, works on.
God Speed Brethren.
