18 years in, what has Bitcoin truly done?
Source: CoinDesk ·
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The Bitcoin white paper achieved a lot of what Satoshi Nakamoto set out to accomplish, but the cultural impact it had may outweigh Bitcoin itself, writes CoinDesk's Nikhilesh De. Maybe crypto really has made it. Eighteen years after Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, it's unclear whether the oldest decentralized digital asset itself is truly closer to becoming a "purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash" than it was during the financial crisis, but the tools and cultural legacy it spurred have cemented themselves as a part of the current zeitgeist. You can see this in the financial products being marketed to people, in the novel technologies being incorporated by small startups and massive established institutions alike, the evolving narratives for this financial system that just won't go away, the fact that North Korea's turned hacking crypto exchanges into a major GDP source — you can even see this in video games. Bitcoin BTC $77,417.37 itself is now firmly…
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