Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the first successful internet money based on peer-to-peer technology; whereby no central bank or authority is involved in the transaction and production of the Bitcoin currency. It was created by an anonymous individual/group under the name, Satoshi Nakamoto. The source code is available publicly as an open source project, anybody can look at it and be part of the developmental process.
Bitcoin is changing the way we see money as we speak. The idea was to produce a means of exchange, independent of any central authority, that could be transferred electronically in a secure, verifiable and immutable way. It is a decentralized peer-to-peer internet currency making mobile payment easy, very low transaction fees, protects your identity, and it works anywhere all the time with no central authority and banks.
Bitcoin is designed to have only 21 million BTC ever created, thus making it a deflationary currency. Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm with an average transaction confirmation time of 10 minutes. Miners today are mining Bitcoin using ASIC chip dedicated to only mining Bitcoin, and the hash rate has shot up to peta hashes.
Being the first successful online cryptography currency, Bitcoin has inspired other alternative currencies such as Litecoin, Peercoin, Primecoin, and so on.
The cryptocurrency then took off with the innovation of the turing-complete smart contract by Ethereum which led to the development of other amazing projects such as EOS, Tron, and even crypto-collectibles such as CryptoKitties.
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
Despite the sale, Nasdaq-listed miner Marathon continues to hold one of the largest public bitcoin treasuries in the world.Marathon Digital, a publicly traded bitcoin mining company, has announced the sale of bitcoin for the first time in two years.β...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 2 years ago
John Michael Musbach of New Jersey admits to paying hit man $20,000 in bitcoin to kill 14-year-old child, prosecutors say& & CBS News
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 2 years ago
Bitcoin price fell slightly to retest support near $23,250 on Friday.
The top cryptocurrency’s price action mirrored early trades on Wall Street as the market reacted to US economic data.
The US added 517,000 jobs, against an estimated 188,000...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
<p>After a year of doom and gloom, the final, trainwreck quarter of which surely drove the last of the crypto tourists to beat an incredulous retreat, January 2023 ushered in an abrupt reversal. This change of atmosphere was stirred by an excep...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago
Hi Every wallet is made with bitcoin core, with descriptor wallets. In computer_1_online, synced bitcoin core 24.0.1, gui: I create a psbt from a watch-only wallet (descriptor: xpub1/xpub2/xpub3) of a multi-signature 2_of_3 In computer_2_offline,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 2 years ago
Bitcoin buyers may get a chance to βload upβ below $22,000 on the back of employment statistics. Bitcoin (BTC) fell prior to the Feb. 3 Wall Street open as fresh Unite...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
On-chain data shows Bitcoin long-term holders now hold 78% of the total circulating supply, the highest value the metric has ever seen.
Bitcoin Long-Term Holders Are Sitting On 78% Of The Total Supply
As pointed out by an analyst on Twitter, the dive...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago
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More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago
In exposing the Bitcoin RPC API to the world in a web browser, we quickly discovered that one of the most informative endpoints, gettxoutsetinfo, was too resource intensive to provide access to. With the introduction of the coinstatsindex in bitcoin...