Bitcoin broke a new record last week, reaching the $ 11,000 mark. Only this year, the most famous of virtual currencies valued almost 900%. .
In the financial market, there is still no consensus on its real function and what should happen in the coming years with bitcoin. Is it the means of payment for the future, the threat of the central banks or a fraud?
Heroína or villain, the fact is that the cryptomoeda is no longer mere curiosity for a common subject among investors. Below you will find ten curiosities involving bitcoins.
1 - Until today, no one has seen the creator of bitcoin
In mid-2008, a developer identified only as Satoshi Nakamoto published a study on the operation of a virtual market and gave rise to the world's most famous crypto-currency. Nakamoto's identity, however, has never been proven.
In 2014, Newsweek magazine said it had discovered the true creator of bitcoin. The information generated an uproar, but ended up not being proven. After that, other names emerged and even who would be the father of the coin. So far, nothing has been proven.
The curious thing is that, in 2015, this Nakamoto was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Economics (a nice opportunity to meet him, of course). The statement came from Bhagwan Chowdhry, a professor at the University of California, but he ended up not taking the prize.
In recent weeks, rumors have started circulating that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would be the real Nakamoto. In a post on the blog Medium, a former intern at one of Musk's companies listed facts and features of the millionaire that would prove that he is the true creator of digital coins.
Shortly thereafter, Musk denied the rumored Twitter. To show his connection with the cryptmoeda, he told that a friend gave him a piece of bitcoin at some point, but that he does not even know "where it went."
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