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Plain-English Bitcoin education from a working solo pool — how Bitcoin actually works, keeping your coins safe, solo-mining know-how, and the story of how we got here. New posts most weeks. Want to mine? Start at /setup or read the guides.

The History of Bitcoin: from a 2008 white paper to a world currency

2026-06-28

A plain-English history of Bitcoin: who Satoshi Nakamoto was, the 2008 white paper, the 2009 genesis block, the pizza that cost 10,000 BTC, the halvings, and how mining grew from a CPU lottery to a global industry.

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Paste your address and copy the config from /setup, watch the pool on /status, and check every claim on /verify. Mine to your own address — that is what makes it truly solo.

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