WTF is Bitcoin?! The Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Guide for Dinner Parties

Chapter 2 | The Foundation: Encryption & P2P File Sharing


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This episode, we delve into the technological breakthroughs that had to happen in order for Bitcoin to be invented.

Apologies for the absurdly long numbers read out, but it is even in the audiobook version, it is necessary to comprehend the magnitude of the number space the Bitcoin code utilises as it influences that security of the private key system. Note, the alphanumeric hex 58 format private key mentioned in the chapter is: 5KPNAazE2GdkCBqDFKk2S2z2ku94ZvUy67yJXPN2A6DLfZgstVh which converted to a decimal becomes: 93,541,061,888,926,601,153,304,018,818,724,990,844,048,985,859,940,779,646,536,561,528,000,476,090,772.

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WTF is Bitcoin?! The Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Guide for Dinner PartiesBy Maxim Beatty