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Bitcoin has officially entered the Guinness World Records for a fig of entries, the archetypal of which is being recognized arsenic the “first decentralized cryptocurrency.”
“Bitcoin was developed arsenic a solution to the situation of regulating a integer currency without immoderate centralized organization,” reads the entry.
Indeed, Bitcoin does connection decentralized statement done proof-of-work, arsenic Guinness mentions, though the grounds keeper does look to inactive beryllium learning however Bitcoin works.
“Each node (i.e.,computer) represents a validator, besides called, successful the lawsuit of PoW, a miner,” the entry continues.
However, this depiction of nodes and miners is not accurate. A node does validate transactions, but miners are abstracted entities that assistance signifier the information held successful the blocks connected the blockchain. A afloat node cannot suggest caller blocks to the blockchain similar miners can.
Still yet, it is simply a notable happening to spot truthful galore firsts successful the satellite of Bitcoin to beryllium recognized by Guinness. For instance, a Bitcoiner favorite, the archetypal commercialized bitcoin transaction wherever Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC to bid $25 worthy of pizza.
Additionally, El Salvador received designation for being the archetypal nation-state to admit bitcoin arsenic legal tender. Bitcoin was besides recognized arsenic the most invaluable cryptocurrency, arsenic good arsenic the oldest.
Furthermore, and contrary to fashionable belief, Guinness noted that the archetypal non-fungible token (NFT) was created connected Bitcoin. In a much light-hearted fashion, an introduction was besides made for the first bitcoin system connected a Minecraft server, allowing mined resources to beryllium traded for fractions of a bitcoin.
While immoderate entries whitethorn person immoderate definitions mixed up oregon immoderate of the semantics of the Bitcoin ecosystem misinterpreted, it is inactive absorbing to spot immoderate of the astir notable achievements of Bitcoin being recognized by Guinness.
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