I am so confused after reading an About us text from the official website of Blockchain.com
As per their claim they stand out to be one of the first to build a blockchain explorer in the year 2011 and I wonder that is how they got hold of the Premium website domain name with Blockchain in it. If as per the Blockchain.com they were the first to build then what was before 2011 and after 2009?
Did we just transacted before that with peer to peer approach and waited for the Bitcoin to appear in our wallets?
I tried to search over the internet with key words
"worlds oldest blockchain explorer"
"first blockchain explorer"
"blockchain explorer beginning"
but all of them are just pointing me towards how blockchain started in the old days. All of them are referring me to how it started with Merkle who coined the whole concept as early as in 1979 through his "tree authentication" in his 1979 Ph.D. thesis for Stanford University.
After searching more there is evidence of Blockchain getting mentioned in the New York Times news paper published in the year 1995. But that was just regarding the talks about how we can cryptographically seal the digital documents.
A cool pic to look at from the old era:
As per their claim they stand out to be one of the first to build a blockchain explorer in the year 2011 and I wonder that is how they got hold of the Premium website domain name with Blockchain in it. If as per the Blockchain.com they were the first to build then what was before 2011 and after 2009?
Did we just transacted before that with peer to peer approach and waited for the Bitcoin to appear in our wallets?
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Blockchain.com got its start as an early pioneer of key infrastructure for the bitcoin community. First, with a Blockchain Explorer that enabled anyone to not only examine transactions and study the blockchain, but an API that enabled companies to build on Bitcoin. We also have provided the most popular and widely used crypto wallet that enables anyone anywhere to control their own money.
I tried to search over the internet with key words
"worlds oldest blockchain explorer"
"first blockchain explorer"
"blockchain explorer beginning"
but all of them are just pointing me towards how blockchain started in the old days. All of them are referring me to how it started with Merkle who coined the whole concept as early as in 1979 through his "tree authentication" in his 1979 Ph.D. thesis for Stanford University.
After searching more there is evidence of Blockchain getting mentioned in the New York Times news paper published in the year 1995. But that was just regarding the talks about how we can cryptographically seal the digital documents.
A cool pic to look at from the old era: