đ Chapter 1: The Spark That Lit the Revolution
Imagine a world where money isnât printed by governments or stored in banks. Instead, it flows freely across the internetâborderless, permissionless, unstoppable. Thatâs the vision Bitcoin was born from.
In 2008, as the world struggled through the worst financial crisis in decades, an anonymous figure named Satoshi Nakamoto published a 9-page whitepaper online. The idea? A peer-to-peer digital currency that didnât need banks. It was radical, simple, and brilliant.
The timing couldnât have been more symbolic. While governments bailed out the financial system by printing trillions of dollars, Bitcoin promised something different: a currency based not on trustâbut on math and code.
It wasnât just a new way to pay. It was a challenge to the status quo.More...