What Does Bitcoin Bring to the World?

Yet another reminder for Amundi CIO who just called Bitcoin a "farce".

Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto sometime in 2008, and perhaps even earlier. His official white paper was published on October 31, 2008, and the network was launched on January 3, 2009. Since then, the Bitcoin network has had a rather extraordinary uptime of 99.99%.

Bitcoin's uptime has nothing to envy that of web giants like Google or Amazon.

It i…