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The 2008 Global Credit Crises was a crises of confidence in markets, — — but also a breakdown of trust in central authorities. Out of this chaos, Satoshi Nakamoto birthed Bitcoin. This decentralized currency promised to work without requiring parties to trust one another. Other <a href="https://medium.com/p/a9e2ffc8ecca" target="_blank">properties of blockchains</a> proved useful in this paradigm including: