Bitcoin Enters Guinness World Records As The World's First Decentralized Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin is included in Guinnes World Records. (Photo; Doc. Unsplash)

JAKARTA Guinness World Records (GWR) is a reference book that is constantly updated every year that records the latest records that humans have achieved. GWR has started since 1955. In 2022, GWR is reported to include Bitcoin (BTC) in its latest list.

Bitcoin's entry into the Guinness World Records is not without reason. Because the digital currency created by an anonymous figure using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto has rocked the current centralized financial system. Guinness includes Bitcoin on its latest list as the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is also referred to as today's most valuable digital currency.

Previously, Satoshi Nakamoto's creation had received awards in recent years. BTC is recognized by mainstream media sources and traditional media. In 2016, the word bitcoin was added to the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary, and two years later this word was included in the lexicon of tersebutbble.

Meanwhile, this year, Guinness World Records (GWR) has made recognition of Satoshi Nakamoto's discovery as bitcoin is considered the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has been added to this year's Guinness Book of World Records list for holding a record as the first decentralized cryptocurrency.

Guinness World Records has officially set a record for various human achievements and extreme natural events over 67 years. Records show the first edition of Guinness World Records was the top book on the best-selling book list in December 1955.

This book still features a significant catalog and world record verification related to various actions and record-breaking achievements. The idea to set the record book originally came from the managing director of Guinness Brewery, Sir Hugh strip.

A summary of Bitcoin is shown in the latest Guinness World Records book explaining how this Bitcoin digital currency project whitepaper was published online in 2008. Author Guinness says Bitcoin is developed as a solution to the challenges of regulating digital currencies without centralized organizations, or 'third trusted parties,' to oversee transactions.

The author of GWR detailed further that Satoshi Nakamoto's network solves multiple expenditure problems.

The Bitcoin network [resolves] multiple expenditure problems with a "without trust" mechanism that does not require any third party (for example, bank) to verify transactions; and that achieves it with a validator (that is, miners, in PoW.) Miners are computers dedicated to the network to validate all transactions and ban bad actors, write a statement from the 2022 GWR Notes, quoted from Bitcoin.com News.