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2. Bitcoin scalability problem - Wikipedia

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   The block size limit, in concert with the proof-of-work difficulty adjustment settings of bitcoin's consensus protocol, constitutes a bottleneck in bitcoin's transaction processing capacity. This can result in increasing transaction fees and delayed processing of transactions that cannot be fit into a block. [ 4 ]

3. Bitcoin protocol - Wikipedia

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   A diagram of a bitcoin transfer. 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 with no central oversight; the blockchain technology, a public ledger that records all bitcoin transactions; mining and proof of work, the process to create new bitcoins and verify transactions; and ...

4. Blockchain - Wikipedia

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   In August 2014, the bitcoin blockchain file size, containing records of all transactions that have occurred on the network, reached 20 GB . [14] In January 2015, the size had grown to almost 30 GB, and from January 2016 to January 2017, the bitcoin blockchain grew from 50 GB to 100 GB in size.

5. A Complete Guide on How Bitcoin Mining Works - AOL

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   In the very early days of bitcoin mining, the network difficulty of mining gave you a better than 1 in 5 chance of finding a new block. Hence, any machine was good enough for bitcoin mining.

6. Bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Based on a free-market ideology, bitcoin was invented in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto, an unknown person. [5] Use of bitcoin as a currency began in 2009, [6] with the release of its open-source implementation. [7]: ch. 1 In 2021, El Salvador adopted it as legal tender ...

7. Blockchain analysis - Wikipedia

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   Because blockchains are typically public, anyone can view the contents of transactions by querying a node or block explorer site (such as Etherscan.io or BitRef.com). By using common-spend clustering algorithms, it is possible to map the transactions of certain entities on the blockchain. [7]

8. Bitcoin losses are piling up for companies that added the ...

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9. Accounting change makes it easier for companies to hold ...

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   In practice, this means that if a company bought Bitcoin at $20,000 and it dropped to $15,000, it must announce an impairment—a nasty sounding word—that never goes away, even if Bitcoin shoots ...