Bitcoin is driving the finance world into a panic.
In recent months, the biggest tech companies - Tesla in the lead, with a historic purchase of $ 1.5 billion in bitcoin in February - have been snapping up this new digital gold.
In one year, the first cryptocurrency has seen its value multiplied by 10 to reach stratospheric levels, around $ 60,000 today.
Some even see this digital asset as the currency of the future, capable of replacing the Euro or the Dollar.
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Bitcoin does not come from nowhere.
It has its roots in the 1990s and in the Sypherpunks movement, a movement that fights against Internet surveillance thanks to cryptography (data encryption)
"Bitcoin is based on an assembly of technologies developed over 20 to 30 years by IT specialists from this movement, ”
explains Baptiste Lac, co-founder of the counter of cybermonnaies.
Birth of a myth
October 31, 2008. Satoshi Nakamoto, a mysterious character, unless it is a
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