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    other symbols. Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Based on a free-market ideology, bitcoin was invented 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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    The bitcoin protocol is the set of rules that govern the functioning of bitcoin. Its key components and principles are: a peer-to-peer decentralized network...
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    Bitcoin Cash (also referred to as Bcash) is a cryptocurrency that is a fork of bitcoin. Launched in 2017, Bitcoin Cash is considered an altcoin or spin-off...
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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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    Roger Ver (redirect from Bitcoin Jesus)
    investor in Bitcoin, Bitcoin-related startups and an early promoter of Bitcoin, and sometimes known as Bitcoin Jesus. He now primarily promotes Bitcoin Cash...
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    El Salvador became the first country in the world to use bitcoin as legal tender, after having been adopted as such by the Legislative Assembly of El...
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    algorithms Taxation of cryptocurrency splits Bitcoin Law Anti-bitcoin law protests Translated from: "...bitcoin nespĺňa atribúty meny v právnom zmysle (jeho...
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    validators to maintain the cryptocurrency. The first cryptocurrency was bitcoin, which was first released as open-source software in 2009. As of June 2023...
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    Satoshi Nakamoto (category People associated with Bitcoin)
    pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation. As...
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  • Bitcoin is one of the main cryptocurrencies used in dark web marketplaces due to the flexibility and relative anonymity of the currency. With bitcoin...
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    Some Bitcoin ATMs offer bidirectional functionality, enabling both the purchase of Bitcoin and the sale of Bitcoin for cash. In some cases, Bitcoin ATM...
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  • Bitcoin.com is a bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet developer and news & education portal. As a cryptocurrency company, Bitcoin.com provides products, services...
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    disposed of a laptop hard drive containing the private keys for 8,000 Bitcoin in the Docksway landfill in Newport, Wales. Howells subsequently assembled...
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  • services between each other anonymously. All transactions were conducted with bitcoin, a cryptocurrency which aided in protecting user identities. The website...
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  • notable commercial activities related to bitcoin. Common services are cryptocurrency wallet providers, bitcoin exchanges, payment service providers and...
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  • the entire history of bitcoin transactions as well as the new set of incoming transactions. The miner is rewarded some bitcoins for solving it. The double-spending...
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  • Bitcoin forks are defined variantly as changes in the protocol of the bitcoin network or as the situations that occur "when two or more blocks have the...
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    The environmental impact of bitcoin is significant. Bitcoin mining, the process by which bitcoins are created and transactions are finalized, is energy-consuming...
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  • The Bitcoin Foundation is an American organization that was formerly a nonprofit corporation. It was founded in September 2012 in an effort to restore...
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  • of Bitcoin rose to US$1.06, then fell to US$0.67 that April. This spike was encouraged by several Slashdot posts about it. In June 2011, Bitcoin's price...
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  • Blockchain (category Bitcoin)
    Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 to serve as the public distributed ledger for bitcoin cryptocurrency transactions, based on previous work by Stuart Haber, W...
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  • open-source software project released under the MIT/X11 license. Inspired by Bitcoin, Litecoin was among the earliest altcoins, starting in October 2011. In...
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    Michael J. Saylor (category People associated with Bitcoin)
    disgorgement. Saylor is a bitcoin advocate and under Saylor MicroStrategy has spent billions of dollars to purchase over 100,000 bitcoins. In 2024, he paid a...
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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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    Bitcoin City is a planned smart city project in La Unión, El Salvador. The planned city is intended to be a tax haven, and to use geothermal energy to...
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  • Bitcoin was designed by its pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, to work as a currency, but its status as a currency is disputed. Economists define...
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  • bitcoin, worth about US$72 million at the time, was stolen. In February 2022, the US government recovered and seized a portion of the stolen bitcoin,...
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  • CEO. Since 2020, the company's securities are widely considered to be a bitcoin proxy due to MicroStrategy's holdings of the cryptocurrency. Saylor started...
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  • Blockchain.com (category Bitcoin companies)
    began as the first Bitcoin blockchain explorer in 2011 and later created a cryptocurrency wallet that accounted for 28% of bitcoin transactions between...
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