Bitcoin “Proof of Work”: 51% of Accountants Agree!
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Those are the “accountants”, all working independently to validate bitcoin transactions.
I’ve read the original white-paper that is often cited as the foundation of the cryptocurrency, and particularly the “bitcoin“, phenomenon.
See: https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper
The author is the mysterious “Satoshi Nakomoto“, who may be Japanese, or may be a collection of people, or may be (my take) some blockchain instance from the future that has developed self-awareness and has traveled back through time, using the identity of Satoshi to create itself.