{"id":957430,"date":"2025-08-25T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957430"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:56:44","slug":"from-a-pizza-purchase-to-a-2-trillion-asset-the-unbelievable-history-of-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/25\/from-a-pizza-purchase-to-a-2-trillion-asset-the-unbelievable-history-of-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"From a pizza purchase to a $2 trillion asset: The unbelievable history of Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin is peer to peer virtual currency created by an anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. It allows you to send value over the wire anytime anywhere without a trusted middleman on a public network. It is decentralized and hence no one can censor you just like no one can stop you from using the internet as long as you have a connection to be online. <\/p>\n<p>Let us look at the major milestones and events that happened along the way and what was the price of bitcoin at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin is peer to peer virtual currency created by an anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. It allows you to send value over the wire anytime anywhere without a trusted middleman on a public network. It is decentralized and hence no one can censor you just like no one can stop you from using the internet as long as you have a connection to be online. Let us look at the major milestones and events that happened along the way and what was the price of bitcoin at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}