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
The popular Twitter account and creator of the bitcoin stock-to-flow (S2F) price model explained that “$288K [is] still in play.” Meanwhile, data from the exchange Deribit shows there’s 425 bitcoin call options with a strike price o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The ‘Speedy Trial’ lock-in period for the Bitcoin network upgrade Taproot is now complete. Data from taproot.watch details the lock-in has been achieved and it was locked in at block height 687,285 and mined by the mining pool Slushpool....
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 3 years ago
Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulat...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
Bitcoin and me ( Hal Finney ) March 19, 2013 I thought I'd write about the last four years, an eventful time for Bitcoin and me. For those who don't know me, I'm Hal Finney. I got my start in crypto working on an early version of PGP, wor...
Cryptocoins Exchanges / Binance - 3 years ago
Well, Taproot is the first Bitcoin protocol upgrade to go live since Segregated Witness activated in 2017. First proposed by former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell and developed by Bitcoin Core contributors including Pieter Wuille, Anthony Towns, Joh...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 3 years ago
Bitcoin would "surprise" the stock-to-flow creator if it fails to return to its forecast trajectory, with three years still to go until crunch time. Bitcoin (BTC) can...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 3 years ago
An intellectual attempt to estimate Bitcoinβs price, corrected according to the hash rate metric. This is Part Four of a multipart series that aims to answer the follo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 3 years ago
With Taproot achieving the 90% critical consensus mark among mining nodes, all is now set for Bitcoin soft fork activation later in November. The Taproot upgrade has a...
Cryptocoins Exchanges / Binance - 3 years ago
All my other coins are correct and in sync, e.g. 123.123 ADA, 321.321 FIL, etc... But for BTC I have the correct amount in my wallet showing as 12.12 whereas on the website it's the wrong amount showing 11.11. The numbers are filler numbers but...