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Fifteen years ago, Satoshi released bitcoin V0.3. Well, it was really TomorrowBut it was in the evening, so it matters.
The version was the sixth of Satoshi This collection From the official bitcoin mailing list. It was bundled with additional features and additional features including “Hashimeter” performance for additional features and mining, including the control of nodes through the Mac OS X version and command line created by Laszlo Honeyses, which was still being done with CPUs across the board.
The update especially came up with 20% faster with hashing. But whatever competitive edge quickly became sluggish with the arrival of GPU miners on the network after less than two weeks.
GPUs were able to over 20% – but it is for another time.
In any case, you can tell that Satoshi was excited. Their declaration Post There were two ammotor points, and there was an extra one in the title: “Bitcoin 0.3 released!” It also had the most attractive tagline in bitcoin history:
“Avoid arbitrary inflation risk of centrally managed currencies!”
Nevertheless, there was no very early pomp. Bitcointock Thread received only four answers, the same amount was seen on Bitcoin.org stage (The version of the thread gathered about 500 times in total).
We can guess from the post below that Satoshi has considered V0.3 as the first official version of bitcoin under V1.0. Early adopted Andrew “Tapi” Taper reacted the crowd to its proposed submit To slashdots in the days going to the release of the version, but Satoshi studied Bitcoin graduation from beta position in one answer:
it worked. Slashdot presented Tapi on its front page on July 11, 2010 – widely considered a major media platform promoting bitcoin (it is also in Slashdot’s wiki entry). Bitcoin was trading for around $ 0.05 at that time.
“How is this for a disruptive technique? Bitcoin A colleague to a colleague is a network-based digital currency that has no central bank, and there is no transaction fee. Using a proof-off-work concept, the nodes transmit their conclusions to the network, discovering the CPU bicycle bundles. ,
“The analysis of energy use indicates that the market value of bitcoin is already above the value of energy required to generate them, indicating healthy demand. The community hopes that the currency will be out of reach of any government.”
The price of bitcoin started the first major bull run of about three months after the Slashdot Post in October 2010, and will reach the dollar equality by February 2011.
Slashdot also celebrated He Milestone SpecialityWhich when the back-to-back is played, it is shown how important some fans of bitcoin were really.
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