00:00Nick Shobo, the legendary computer scientist, cryptographer, and legal scholar, is often regarded as one of the key minds whose work laid the foundations for Bitcoin.
00:08Long before Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, Shobo was already imagining a form of money that existed outside the control of banks and governments.
00:16His idea was called Bitgold.
00:18Bitgold was never implemented, but its principles were revolutionary.
00:21Shobo proposed a system where participants could use computational work similar to what we know today as mining to create scarce digital assets.
00:28These assets would be chained together, recorded, and verified by a network of peers.
00:33While Bitgold had some unsolved challenges, it introduced the essential concepts of proof-of-work, decentralization, and trustless verification.
00:40These concepts would later become the backbone of Bitcoin itself.
00:43Shobo is also famous for coining the term smart contracts decades before Ethereum and other blockchains adopted it.
00:49His ability to merge cryptography, economics, and law made him a unique voice in the cypherpunk movement.
00:54To this day, some even speculate, though network confirms that Shobo himself could be Satoshi Nakamoto.
01:00Regardless, his influence on Bitcoin is undeniable.
01:03Fast forward to today, and we arrive at Bitcoin Core version 30.
01:06This release represents the ongoing evolution of the world's most secure and decentralized financial network.
01:11Bitcoin Core v30 introduces critical improvements in performance and security.
01:15And on them are refinements to peer-to-peer networking, better protection against potential denial-of-service attacks, and optimizations that reduce memory and CPU usage for nodes.
01:24The update also improves the wallet and transaction handling, making it easier for users and businesses to interact with the blockchain securely.
01:30Importantly, Core v30 stays faithful to Bitcoin's development philosophy, slow, deliberate, and conservative changes that preserve consensus and decidualization.
01:39When you connect these two threads to the vision of Nick Shobo and the progress of Bitcoin Core, you see a clear line through history.
01:45Shobo planted the intellectual seeds of trust-minimized digital money.
01:48Bitcoin took those seeds and grew into a global monetary network.
01:51And with each new release, like Core v30, that network becomes stronger, more efficient, and more resilient.
01:57Bitcoin is no longer just an experiment with spivatin' cryptography forums.
02:01It is now infrastructure used by millions, defended by developers worldwide, and secured by the most powerful decentralized computing network on Earth.
02:08Nick Shobo's early vision lies on in every blockmine and in every version of Bitcoin Core released.
02:13And version 30 is not just software, it's proof that the idea of decentralized money continues to mature, evolve, and endure.
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