A Conversation with Howard Koolman - 30th July 2023: Part 5 - Bitcoin and Carrington Events

This part of the conversation returned to Bitcoin and how it started, and whether it would succumb to a Carrington Event. It then went onto corruption, particularly political corruption in the U.S.

The Carrington Event: History's greatest solar storm:
Extreme solar storms such as the 1859 Carrington Event can play havoc with technology on Earth.
https://www.space.com/the-carrington-event

Wow! Sun Just Produced a Carrington Like Event, But We Got Super Lucky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJCytV7PUzk

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Crypto fans just celebrated the bitcoin inventor's birthday and his legend is as mysterious as ever.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto-bitcoin-inventor-crypto-steve-jobs-apple-2023-4

Bitcoin Mining
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin-mining.asp