Unless you have just woken up from a 10-year coma, it is likely that you would heard of a little cryptocurrency called Bitcoin. Not too long ago (31 October 2008 to be exact) the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto published a White Paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-Peer Electronic Cash System. FYI Satoshi Nakamoto is actually just a pseudonym used by the individual or group that created the cryptocurrency in 2009. Source: Bitcoin.org This paper was just the beginning. A few months later on 3 January 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block of bitcoin (block number 0), which gave a reward of 50 bitcoins. With that, the Bitcoin network was born. This was the first implementation of blockchain technology as a public and decentralised ledger for transactions made using Bitcoin. After Satoshi published the Bitcoin whitepaper and launched the Bitcoin blockchain, they vanished without a trace in 2010. Why Bitcoin Matters For context Bitcoin was created amidst the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC)....