Most people have heard of only Bitcoin. But did you know Bitcoin is just one of many digital currencies? So how did digital currencies come about? To understand where and how we got to where we are now, and possibly to understand how and where we’re headed in the future, it’s helpful to take a look at the history of how the concept of digital money got started. Bitcoin Was Not the First In the early 1980s, American computer scientist and cryptographic pioneer David Chaum rel

Today, at 12:20pm UT, or 8:20am ET, Bitcoin split into two. One Bitcoin will be known as “Bitcoin” and enable Segwit2x, supported by most businesses in the community. Another Bitcoin will be “Bitcoin Cash”, which has lesser support, but is currently trading on futures markets at around 20% of Bitcoin’s value. If you control the private keys to an address with 1 Bitcoin on July 31st, after this fork event, you will control 1 Bitcoin (BTC) and also 1 Bitcoin Cash (BCC) on two,