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    Bitcoin Core is free and open-source software that serves as a bitcoin node (the set of which form the Bitcoin network) and provides a bitcoin wallet which...
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    or other symbols. Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Nodes in the peer-to-peer bitcoin network verify transactions...
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    The Bitcoin scalability problem refers to the limited capability of the Bitcoin network to handle large amounts of transaction data on its platform in...
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    Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a digital asset that uses cryptography to control its creation and management rather than relying on central authorities...
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    Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency that is a fork of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash is a spin-off or altcoin that was created in 2017. In November 2018, Bitcoin...
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  • Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) is a full node implementation for the bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash networks. The Bitcoin Core client, from which Bitcoin Unlimited...
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  • achieved significant attention within the bitcoin community in mid-2015 amid a contentious debate among core developers over increasing the block size...
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  • went live on October 13, 2011. Litecoin was a source code fork of the Bitcoin Core client, originally differing by having a decreased block generation time...
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    Mt. Gox (category Former Bitcoin exchanges)
    Mt. Gox was a bitcoin exchange based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Launched in 2010, it was handling over 70% of all bitcoin (BTC) buys/sells worldwide by...
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  • A bug was discovered in the Bitcoin Core software that gave miners the ability to take down essential parts of the Bitcoin infrastructure (nodes) by sending...
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    Gavin Andresen (category People associated with Bitcoin)
    (formerly Gavin Bell) is a software developer known for his involvement with bitcoin. He is based in Amherst, Massachusetts. Originally a developer of 3D graphics...
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  • Cryptocurrency wallet (category Bitcoin)
    Bitcoin-Qt. After the release of version 0.9, the software bundle was renamed Bitcoin Core to distinguish itself from the underlying network. Bitcoin...
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    Blockstream (category Bitcoin companies)
    interoperability between the Bitcoin main chain and the Liquid sidechain to extend Bitcoin’s capabilities. Liquid is built using Elements Core, a sidechain protocol...
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  • Look up bitcoin, Bitcoin, BitCoin, or bitcóin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. Bitcoin may also refer to: Bitcoin Foundation...
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  • IndexedDB and is one of the supported backends for Riak. Additionally, Bitcoin Core and go-ethereum store the blockchain metadata using a LevelDB database...
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    operating systems. Autodesk Maya Autodesk 3ds Max Bitcoin Core, the reference bitcoin implementation. Most bitcoin forks also provide the reference GUI. Calibre...
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    programmer and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, that described a way to build decentralized applications. Buterin argued to the Bitcoin Core developers that blockchain...
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    roadmap – Schnorr signatures and signature aggregation". bitcoincore.org. Bitcoin Core. 23 March 2017. Archived from the original on 24 March 2018. Retrieved...
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  • Since the creation of bitcoin in 2009, the number of new cryptocurrencies has expanded rapidly. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority estimated there were...
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    Balaji Srinivasan (category People associated with Bitcoin)
    000 to bitcoin core developers. Forbes magazine remarked shortly after the bet was made that Srinivasan owns "a considerable amount of bitcoin" and his...
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    Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency which is based on Bitcoin's codebase. It shares many similarities, such as a fixed total supply of 21 million...
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    innovation of Bitcoin in 2008, and the early network effect gained by Bitcoin, tokens, cryptocurrencies, and other digital assets that were not Bitcoin became...
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  • Blockchain (category Bitcoin)
    core component of the cryptocurrency bitcoin, where it serves as the public ledger for all transactions on the network. In August 2014, the bitcoin blockchain...
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    The Lightning Network (LN) is a payment protocol built on the Bitcoin blockchain and those of other cryptocurrencies. It is intended to enable fast transactions...
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  • keep mining Bitcoins, the amount of Bitcoins increases and the purchasing power of each Bitcoin decrease. However, the tokenomics of Bitcoin has multiple...
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    became involved with cryptocurrency early in its inception, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011. In 2015, Buterin deployed the Ethereum blockchain with...
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    Kim. Before the official launch, McCaleb formed a website called "Secret Bitcoin Project" seeking alpha testers. The nonprofit Stellar Development Foundation...
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    Adam Back (category People associated with Bitcoin)
    services, the Jade hardware wallet, and the Core Lightning implementation. Singh, Rachna (2019). The Bitcoin Saga: A Mixed Montage. Bloomsbury Publishing...
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  • BitGo (category Bitcoin companies)
    as the sole custodian for bitcoin that people deposit to receive a tokenized form of that bitcoin known as Wrapped Bitcoin or WBTC that can be exchanged...
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  • Cyanogenmod from LineageOS Bitcoin Cash, from Bitcoin Core, supported by the forked implementations Bitcoin ABC, Bitcoin Unlimited and Bitcoin XT. Unified XUL Platform...
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