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.com - 3 years ago
While the price of bitcoin is more than 40% lower than it was 90 days ago on March 29, the number of bitcoin held on exchanges has also been reduced. Last year on the same day in June, 2.79 million bitcoin was retained on crypto trading platforms and...
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More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
Hey everyone. I'm a tax professional and just recently took the second part of the Special Enrollment Examination which is an IRS test to become an Enrolled Agent. During my exam I had two questions specifically about Bitcoin out of the 100 quest...
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For real. Weโve got obvious inflation in every category you could possibly give a shit about in USD terms. Just had piles of money printed and injected all around the world, with larger more ambitious projects planned to follow. Weโve got nation-stat...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
I found a website bitcoin.de (the fee for buying should be in total ca. 1% of the amount shared between buyer and seller) I am also aware of tax if bitcoin will be sold before 1 year time. After 1 year there will be no tax on it. Anything other in t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph โ - 3 years ago
Ricardo Salinas Pliego doubles down on BTC yet again as gold and the U.S. dollar come in for serious criticism. Bitcoin (BTC) is definitively the "new gold" for the th...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
Hi Everyone, Hoping to get your thoughts on something I've been contemplating for some time now. I've been DCAing into stocks and Bitcoin for a few years now but recently have been considering liquidating all my stocks and completely transit...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
Just updating this week number, as you know I'm Venezuelan living here. We are a little better volume (around 60-70 BTC weekly) months ago we were at 40-50 BTC. A year ago around 400 BTC were traded weekly! When compared to other countries: Arge...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph โ - 3 years ago
Chinaโs crackdown on Bitcoin mining sparks a restructuring of the distribution of the ecosystem, impacting the hash rate in the short run. Chinaโs crackdown on Bitcoin...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
...It's only de FCA... ...talking only about Binance... ...and talking only about crypto securities and derivatives from Binance. Edit: Apparently, it is just the futures element as it's regulated in the UK. They might have to set up a binanc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph โ - 3 years ago
A successful Wyckoff culmination could see BTC price action target levels north of $40,000 again, one analysts says. Bitcoin (BTC) rose from a fresh $30,000 support ch...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
A day ago a post on r/bitcoin showed the immensely high amount of bitcoin shorted, this of course sparked discussion on whether bitcoin would drop below 30k. However, now we see a huge amount of bitcoin being covered: https://www.tradingview.com/symb...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
What's the best way to make productive use of your Bitcoin holdings? I am aware that you can lend on Blockfi / Celcius but I don't like those as they are centralised. Other options include wrapping BTC to wBTC and then staking on Badger. Any...
Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 3 years ago
Mexico’s third wealthiest billionaire according to Forbes is a Bitcoin fan. Ricardo Salinas Pliego sure did his homework, and he’s here to make you see the light. The billionaire recently announced that he holds 10% of his portfolio in Bi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
According to new reports, Raees and Ameer Cajee, the two young directors of the recently collapsed crypto investment firm, Africrypt, have “categorically denied” allegations they fleeced clients. Instead, the brothers insist their company...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
On Saturday, Bitcoin’s SHA256 hashrate managed to climb back above the 100 exahash per second region after it slid to a low of 91 EH/s three days ago. Meanwhile, in five days the network’s mining difficulty change is approaching and it co...