No technical content is created out of thin air, there must be more technical building blocks at the time of its birth to form a series of technical innovations afterwards. Blockchain and Cryptocurrency In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published his famous “Bitcoin White Paper”, which demonstrated a decentralized system for peer-to-peer transactions and used the blockchain as the underlying technology. The key innovation of Bitcoin is the combination of blockchain (i.e. timestamp) and Proof of Work ...