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A 2014 study of Google Trends data found correlations between bitcoinczech.com-related searches and ones related to computer programming and illegal activity, but not libertarianism or investment topics. In 2011, the price started at $0.30 per bitcoin, growing to $5.27 for the year. The next month it fell to $7.80, and in another month to $4.77. The first wallet program, simply named Bitcoin, and sometimes referred to as the Satoshi client, was released in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto as open-source software.

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Nakamoto was concerned that traditional currencies were too reliant on the trustworthiness of banks to work bitcoinczechia.com properly. Nakamoto proposed a digital currency, Bitcoin, that could serve as a medium of exchange without relying on any financial institutions or governments. The proposal was made in October 2008 in a paper published on the Bitcoin Web site, which had been founded in August 2008.

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Computations of this magnitude are extremely expensive and utilize specialized hardware. A few local and national governments are officially using Bitcoin in some capacity, with one country, El Salvador, adopting it as a legal tender. An American nonprofit called the Bitcoin Foundation was founded in 2012 to support the development and adoption of the Bitcoin protocol. After three years, however,