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
With such a large spike in bitcoin sentiment recently, a bitcoin rally could be underway.
Bitcoin has been fluctuating between $30k and $40k for a while now with no real significant movement either up or down. This has come in light of the market cra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Microstrategy Inc. is selling up to $1 billion of its common stock, MSTR, intending to use some of the net proceeds to buy bitcoin. The Nasdaq-listed company also recently completed a $500 million secured notes offering and will use the proceeds to a...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 3 years ago
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has now postponed the review of three Bitcoin ETF applications.
The SEC sent out a notice detailing that it has delayed its decision-making regarding Kryptoin’s proposed Bitcoin ETF. The agency explaine...
Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 3 years ago
Hall of Fame investor Richard Bernstein has warned that bitcoin is in a bear market. Richard is the CEO and CIO of Richard Bernstein Advisors. A management fund that manages $4.7 billion and provides investment advisory services to over 10,000 client...
Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 3 years ago
Dante Mossi, president of The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), confirmed in a press conference that the institution will support El Salvador’s efforts to enforce its Bitcoin Law. The new legislation was recently approved...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 3 years ago
MSTR (NASDAQ) closed 15.89%, or $82.05 up, on its price on 14 June as the news of the new BTC purchase broke.
MicroStrategy is looking to sell up to $1 billion worth of its Class A common stock, with the proceeds of the sale used to buy more Bitcoin,...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
For the time first time ever I used a crypto ATM here in Geneva - although hidden in the manor store, four coins were available for purchase with a 1000 chf limit per person per day. Cash only, you are given a qr code with a public key to send and re...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
https://www.trustnodes.com/2021/06/05/winklevoss-not-selling-till-500000-bitcoin The Winklevoss twins were the original investors in Facebook. submitted by /u/denova-trader [link] [comments]
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 3 years ago
Celsius Network CEO Alex Mashinsky is convinced Bitcoin will be trading at $160,000 by the end of the year if it is adopted as currency in more countries
Alex Mashinsky, Celsius chief executive, feels that Bitcoin price has not seen its peak just yet...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
El Salvador, Brazil, Iran, etc. knows this. It's inevitable. submitted by /u/AdNational7013 [link] [comments]
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 3 years ago
The cryptocurrency market hasn’t been the same since Tesla bought Bitcoin
Elon Musk has once again affected the Bitcoin price with a Tweet, but bucked the recent negative trend by giving the original cryptocurrency a daily gain of more than ten...