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.
Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 3 years ago
Sino Global Capital has been posting reports on Bitcoin, China, and the changes that are taking place within the Asian Giant. Today, most of the BTC miners in the Chinese province of Sichuan will turn off their machines. This has created another vari...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
The World Bank has refused to support El Salvador’s request for help in the transition to use Bitcoin as legal tender. It cited issues with Bitcoin’s environmental impact and transparency as reasons why it will not support El Salvador move to adopt B...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
To buy a Rambo Costume that is, and be Rambo. This requires everything Rambo had. So I need a flight ticket to Canada. That's where they filmed the first Rambo. So I need enough to buy the costumes and a flight ticket to Fraser Valley to experien...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
There is a free semester of college level, Blockchain/Bitcoin knowledge available in a 20+ part, 1 hour YouTube classroom. It’s called “Blockchain and Money”. I won’t post the link, but enter “MIT OpenCourseWare Bitcoin” and you’ll find it. I’m on le...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
It may have seemed like a crazy bet then, but it would have paid off for your grandkids. And while it would have cost more and wouldn’t have nearly as much upside, buying the same land in 1890 or 1990 was still a really smart investment. If you dis...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
Santiment analytics agency has reported that despite the Bitcoin decline to the $34,000 level, BTC whale holders are still buying the dip, taking advantage of the price drop. According to the recent tweet from the Santiment team, crypto address...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
So let talk about this, how can we rise the adoption of BITCOIN ? how can we make it something real for people ? Let's use it in our daily routines, talk about it whenever we want to pay something ...let's make it our way to go in whatever we...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
CEBL, the Canadian men’s basketball league, will offer its professional basketball players the option to receive a portion of their salary in cryptocurrency. The new payment option has been enabled through a partnership with the Canadian cryptocurren...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 years ago
Downside risks for BTC price are also heightened due to the recent dollar bounce. The ghost of stock market crash is back again to haunt Bitcoin (BTC).It happened last...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
It would be great to see a burgeoning online merchant sector based in El Salvador and shipping worldwide. Customers who wish to spend without the loss of privacy incurred by first selling their coins for fiat could be a large, untapped reserve. ...