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What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin Explained Simply for Dummies

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Bitcoin Cryptocurrency For Beginners 2022

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What Does Bitcoin Need to Succeed as a Currency? [POLICYbrief]

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How Cryptocurrency ACTUALLY works.

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Bitcoin: How Cryptocurrencies Work

Bitcoin (₿) is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The currency began use in 2009 when its implementation was released as open-source software. Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain.
  • Facts 

  • Units and divisibility 

  • Blockchain 

  • Transactions 

  • Ownership 

  • Mining 

  • Decentralization 

  • Privacy and fungibility 

  • Wallets 

  • Software wallets 

  • Cold storage 

  • Hardware wallets 

  • Paper wallets 

  • Creation 

  • 2011–2012 

  • 2013–2016 

  • 2017–2019 

  • 2020–present 

  • Austrian economics roots 

  • Anarchism and libertarianism 

  • Economics 

  • Acceptance by merchants 

  • Financial institutions 

  • As an investment 

  • Venture capital 

  • Price and volatility 

  • Legal status, tax and regulation 

  • Regulatory warnings 

  • Price manipulation investigation 

  • Criticisms 

  • Economic concerns 

  • Energy consumption and carbon footprint 

  • Use in illegal transactions 

  • Software implementation 

  • Term "HODL" 

  • Literature 

  • Film 

  • Music 

  • Academia