Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009, but did not know who the founder of this currency. Satoshi Nakamoto is a person who is suspected as the inventor of the digital currency this. The name is nothing to do with the software open and who designed Bitcoin.
Look into the terms of the network is different with other payment systems, i.e. using peer-to-peer. Where by using this network then it is not centralized storage/primary administrator, therefore Bitcoin is not controlled by the government because bitcoin adheres to the system of decentralization.
Beginning to appear, the Bitcoin issue 50 Bitcoin first in the world produced from the system that later was known as the “Genesis Block”. To get this Bitcoin needed mining in the digital world, every 10 minutes or more after that new Bitcoins could be distributed. Bitcoin itself is one of the first implementation which is called Cryptocurrency.
The beginning of Bitcoin becoming popular due to the presence of a group of cryptographers, namely a group of people who engaged in the study of encoding (cryptography). Satoshi Nakamoto is also active in this group, there are reports that he is quite diligent in replying to various questions in various forums. Then do not be surprised, cryptography is the foundation of the early primary Bitcoin stand up to the rame as the current that much sought after many people.