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 / The Cointelegraph β - 3 years ago
Both iterations of the worldβs most popular DEX now generate more fee revenue than Bitcoin. The worldβs largest decentralized exchange keeps growing and the newly-laun...
Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 3 years ago
An interview by Alyona Karpinskaya
Interviewing: Norbert Goffa
Q: What is your opinion about the post of Elon Musk, where Tesla dissociated itself from Bitcoin, regarding the environmentally damaging effect of its mining?
A: Honestly, I find it very...
Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 3 years ago
Bitcoin price is holding gains above the $38,000 pivot level against the US Dollar. BTC is signaling more gains above the $40,000 resistance zone in the near term.
Bitcoin is showing positive signs above the $37,000 and $38,000 resistance levels.
Th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has predicted that a flood of institutional money will flow into bitcoin once miners have addressed the renewable energy and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. He said the flood...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
"In this cosmically uniform, common energy-value system for all humanity, costing will be expressed in kilowatt-hours, watt-hours, and watt-seconds of work. Kilowatt-hours will become the prime criteria of costing the production of the complex o...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
Go to school 12 years; Get a loan to pay university that you might take a lifetime to pay; Get a job 9-5; Get a loan to buy a house that you might take a lifetime to pay; Do a 401k or something similar in order to prepare your retirement; Pay your t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Investment bank Goldman Sachs says institutional investors and asset managers are driven to bitcoin by “fear of missing out” (FOMO). Goldman now considers bitcoin a new asset class. Nonetheless, institutional investors are facing several...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
After bitcoin prices dipped to a low of $30,066 per unit last week, lots of people have been focused on the panic sellers. Meanwhile, when bitcoin prices plunged, the number of bitcoin addresses in accumulation tapped an all-time high at 545,115 addr...
More / Etherum Reddit - 3 years ago
Let me start off by saying that I am in no way, shape or form anti-Ethereum. I love Ethereum, Iβve been building on it for years and am heavily invested. But this whole narrative that proof of stake will remove control from the miners and being it b...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
Thatβs how markets should work! some more signs, that i can post this (stupid rule). Steps Like ev'ry flower wilts, like youth is fading...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
On Monday, the crypto asset fund manager One River filed a unique bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the Form S-1 filed, One River wants to list a carbon-neutral bitcoi...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!" That's how I'm feeling about the fuckery going on right now with Bitcoin price manipulation, and I no longer want to contribute to it... I'm withdrawing all of my c...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 3 years ago
Will $37,000 hold for more upside in the near term for Bitcoin? Bitcoin (BTC) prices pulled back on May 25, wiping a small portion of the gains it had made during the...