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TIL - Bitcoins were developed by an anonymous software designer who called himself Satoshi Nakamoto. In 2010 he turned over the source code and disappeared. Nakamoto is believed to be in possession of roughly one million Bitcoin. In December 2013, this was the equivalent of $1.1B

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