"Chancellor of the Exchequer on the brink of a second bank bailout."
By engraving, in the first computer block of bitcoin, a series of numbers and letters corresponding to the cryptographic translation of the headline on the front page of the British daily
The Times
of January 3, 2009, its mysterious inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, indicated the underlying philosophy of this first cryptocurrency.
The world is then plunged into the consequences of the financial crisis of 2008. The fear of inflation and the question of confidence in banks and currencies are at the center of concerns.
Programmed to be issued in limited quantities (21 million), bitcoin, independent of states and central banks, is intended to be an anti-inflation weapon.
For several years, only a handful of savvy crypto-computer scientists took an interest in it, followed by a fringe of criminals who immediately saw their interest in it.
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Eleven years later, the planet is facing a new crisis.
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