A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

[Karartma1]

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". Laozi

Change can come in many forms in our lives. It might come forcefully, or creep along incrementally.
On October 31st 2008 the Bitcoin white paper A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System had been released by Satoshi Nakamoto.
If that never happened, none of us would be here.
A journey of a thousand miles began with that very single step.
Most of us are here for different reasons but I want to say the most simple words once more to Satoshi:
thank you

Take care and never show up or reveal yourself.

Oh, by the way, Happy Birthday BTC BITCOIN BTC

[clickerz]

Thanks for this trivia and after reading this posts I am curious if its true an I ask Mr. Google. It turns October 31 is bitcins birthday and I may qoute below a post from foserfox.

Today is Bitcoin’s Birthday. Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin Whitepaper eight years ago today, on October 31, 2008.

At the time, many people who first read the paper became interested in the background technology, and several wanted to see it in a working state.

It seems very few knew that was going to happen.

Once Bitcoin launched in 2009, the biggest success story in digital money was launched. Satoshi launched Bitcoin as open source software so anyone could use it, fork it and update it. At first, the early adopters were mainly from the cryptography community like Hal Finney, the recipient of the very first bitcoin transaction.

bitcoin market cap on Bitcoin's BirthdayNick Szabo and Wei Dai were also early adopters, with Szabo having developed “bit gold” prior to the Bitcoin whitepaper’s release. Wei Dai is the creator of b-money another precursor to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin’s adoption was a steady progress as more people began to find out about it and experiment with everything from forking and making their own coins to mining technology.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-birthday-whitepaper/

Happy Birthday Bitcoin! You changed many lives and gives opportunity to many people on this planet.

[franky1]

not bitcoins birthday.

more so bitcoins conception date.

happy pregnancy day bitcoin.

birthday is in january

[Wind_FURY]

Thanks for this trivia and after reading this posts I am curious if its true an I ask Mr. Google. It turns October 31 is bitcins birthday and I may qoute below a post from foserfox.

Today is Bitcoin’s Birthday. Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin Whitepaper eight years ago today, on October 31, 2008.

At the time, many people who first read the paper became interested in the background technology, and several wanted to see it in a working state.

It seems very few knew that was going to happen.

Once Bitcoin launched in 2009, the biggest success story in digital money was launched. Satoshi launched Bitcoin as open source software so anyone could use it, fork it and update it. At first, the early adopters were mainly from the cryptography community like Hal Finney, the recipient of the very first bitcoin transaction.

bitcoin market cap on Bitcoin's BirthdayNick Szabo and Wei Dai were also early adopters, with Szabo having developed “bit gold” prior to the Bitcoin whitepaper’s release. Wei Dai is the creator of b-money another precursor to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin’s adoption was a steady progress as more people began to find out about it and experiment with everything from forking and making their own coins to mining technology.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-birthday-whitepaper/

Happy Birthday Bitcoin! You changed many lives and gives opportunity to many people on this planet.

Also do not forget Adam Back and the development of Hashcash which is where Bitcoin's proof of work derives from. For me proof of work is still the best method to achieve distributed consensus.

[franky1]

Also do not forget Adam Back and the development of Hashcash which is where Bitcoin's proof of work derives from. For me proof of work is still the best method to achieve distributed consensus.

lol seems like you are buying into the blockstream rhetoric and closing your mind to bitcoins open non control.
i give you 6 months before you start praising adam back as your lord and savour and outright owner of bitcoin inc.

seriously.. you are falling down the wrong rabbit hole, and you will only be seeing central bank owned FIAT2.0 down that rabbit hole.

keep an open mind. dont be fooled by corporate promises of baiting decentralization while switching over to centralization behind the scenes

[MONKEYJUNK]

not bitcoins birthday.

more so bitcoins conception date.

happy pregnancy day bitcoin.

birthday is in january

Can you or anyone explain how/where the bitcoin was published? How people began to hear/use? Like some kind of advertising in forums or whatever...

I never read how it has spread in the beginning...

[franky1]

not bitcoins birthday.

more so bitcoins conception date.

happy pregnancy day bitcoin.

birthday is in january

Can you or anyone explain how/where the bitcoin was published? How people began to hear/use? Like some kind of advertising in forums or whatever...

I never read how it has spread in the beginning...

BEFORE october 2008 distributed finance was being discussed, this was done via cypherpunks and sourceforge and IRC. for years different ways to find a solution to a problem of finance without the need of corporations of government were being talked and discussed.

there were hundreds of different ways, but each had its flaws. but then atleast 10 security features that when combined in the fashion they were, became bitcoin.
in october a white paper was released to show a concept of how those 10 features were brought together in such a way that it just made logical sense that it actually achieved what everyone desired.

between november-december 2008 a very rough implementation was created privately and on january 9th the first block was created and several people got involved. hal finney was there alongside satoshi on day one. and within a couple weeks half a dozen people were debugging it and expanding it

within six months a couple dozen and within a year more kept joining.
and then this forum was created in november 2009 to concentrate all the talk into one place
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5.msg28#msg28

the rest is history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin
as for trying to escalate adam back into some god.
adam back failed to achieve anything. he did not even help bitcoin. it was satoshi that put the puzzle pieces together where others have failed and it was not until 2013 before adam back came to the bitcoin community to make a bank funded corporation to try to over emphasise his concept to pretend he was involved from day one.
yes satoshi used his idea along with other idea's from other people. but that should not make adam back lord of bitcoin.

its much like saying the person that invented the wheel should be treated as the lord and saviour of cars. even though the wheel inventor had no input into the combustion engine or the road infrastructure. or even directly hand crafted the exact wheel for the first car or even any vehicle for 4 years. it was just his open concept that someone else hand crafted.
then adam back jumped on stage 4 years later not to show what he done in the car industry. but to announce a new tire company.

[jacktheking]

I think I am late by a day. However, happy (pregnancy) day Bitcoin! Thank you Satoshi Nakamoto for coming up with this crytpocurrency idea. Without your work eight years ago, I don't know what will I be doing on the internet today with no access to Paypal or Credit card at all.

[~Bitcoin~]

I think i am not late to say happy birthday BITCOIN.

Actually the day when bitcoin get launched is a revolutionary day from which new era of virtual currency have been started. I and many of us will never be tired saying thank you so much satoshi for your beautiful innovation.

Bitcoin first step ---> continuous development ---> secure bitcoin network ---- > more adoption -----> bitcoin accepted almost every merchants in the world.

[spazzdla]

Happy belated name day bitcoin.

[Junko]

Happy belated Conception/Birthday Bitcoin!

I love you more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.

[Mastsetad]

What a nice feeling to say this really.
Happy Birthday Bitcoin! We love you and we always will till the day you are with us and alive or till the day we are alive.
Thank you Satoshi Nakamoto for bringing bitcoin into being that changed the way of living for many people including me.

Edit: Happy belated birthday, sorry i'm late for a day 

[Cryptonite310]

Wow, yesterdays was my dad's birthday as well. Both of them on the same birthday is very interesting.

[yayayo]

It's funny that the infamous "Bitcoin Pizza Day" always receives more public attention than the day the foundation of Bitcoin was released. It's true that the publication was only the first step of a long and industrious journey to the Bitcoin we use today. Nonetheless the publication of the White Paper by Satoshi was not a small step at all - it was a giant leap in the history of money. It's an ingenious invention, more worthy of a Nobel Prize in economics than any invention / theory preceding it.

Even though Bitcoin is still in its infancy, it has already changed many lives for the better. Every single day I'm grateful for this ingenious invention that may put an end to the usage of governmental fiat scam money, enabling economic freedom for everyone. And its just beginning to take over the world...

Thank you, Satoshi!

ya.ya.yo!

[Kprawn]

It is very fitting that we are taking the NEXT step with Bitcoin {SegWit} in the same week that Bitcoin was released into the world. Lets hope

this is a good omen for great times to come.   ....The scaling debate can now be put on the back burner and we can now focus on much

bigger things. As you said OP..... small baby steps.... If you run too quickly, you will fall..

[amacar2]

Happy belated Conception/Birthday Bitcoin!

I love you more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.

Like your statement love you more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.  

Bitcoin is being really nicer and stronger than in past and actually price also seem to be more resistant to dumps than before, which is good for really nice future of bitcoin.

[seven2smoke]

Happy Birthday bitcoin and i hope every year you grow up 700$ more.

[SyGambler]

I think I am late by a day. However, happy (pregnancy) day Bitcoin! Thank you Satoshi Nakamoto for coming up with this crytpocurrency idea. Without your work eight years ago, I don't know what will I be doing on the internet today with no access to Paypal or Credit card at all.

same here , I literally only have access to bitcoins
so Happy Birthday bitcoin  or Pregnancy Day " weirdo  " , hopefully the community will keep getting bigger and stronger
Cheers Satoshis 

[Bitcoinsummoner]

Happy belated Conception/Birthday Bitcoin!

I love you more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.

Like your statement love you more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.  

Bitcoin is being really nicer and stronger than in past and actually price also seem to be more resistant to dumps than before, which is good for really nice future of bitcoin.

It is highly recommended to always invest money in bitcoin because the future of bitcoin have a great future since we are already experience the price from last year until now from few years and the present is different but according to chart it keeps rising every year and more price will increase will happen and reach so if you have bitcoins you can get the benefits of price increase..

[smho_16]

Is it because of pregnancy day that bitcoin price still rise today and is well over 700 USD mark ? Jokes apart bitcoin has really gonne very far from that 1st single step. We are all happy to be part of the bitcoin community. I am sure for the majority of us it has changed our life for the better. So I wish bitcoin at least twice the success it have had until now.