Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Karl R. Heintz
Speech 100
Prof. Smith
Main Points
Short history of Bitcoin
Brief description of Bitcoin
Recent developments
Satoshi Nakamoto
Publishes the famous paper
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic
Cash System in 2009
What is Bitcoin?
Whats so unique?
P2P (Peer-to-peer) technology
Open-source
Decentralized
Decentralized
No central organization manages or
controls the movement of Bitcoins
Recent Developments
IRS Decision