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2. 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 ...

3. Bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   Bitcoin wallets were the first cryptocurrency wallets, enabling users to store the information necessary to transact bitcoins. [86][8]: ch. 1, glossary The first wallet program, simply named Bitcoin, and sometimes referred to as the Satoshi client, was released in 2009 by Nakamoto as open-source software. [7]

4. History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   History of bitcoin. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a digital asset that uses cryptography to control its creation and management rather than relying on central authorities. [1] Originally designed as a medium of exchange, Bitcoin is now primarily regarded as a store of value.

5. Satoshi Nakamoto - Wikipedia

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   Digital currencies, computer science, cryptography. Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous [1][2][3][4] person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation. [5] As part of the implementation, Nakamoto also devised the first ...

6. Cryptocurrency wallet - Wikipedia

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   An example paper printable bitcoin wallet consisting of one bitcoin address for receiving and the corresponding private key for spending. A cryptocurrency wallet is a device, [1] physical medium, [2] program or an online service which stores the public and/or private keys [3] for cryptocurrency transactions.

7. Bitcoin scalability problem - Wikipedia

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   Bitcoin scalability problem. The Bitcoin scalability problem refers to the limited capability of the Bitcoin network to handle large amounts of transaction data on its platform in a short span of time. [1] It is related to the fact that records (known as blocks) in the Bitcoin blockchain are limited in size and frequency.

8. Lightning Network - Wikipedia

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   Lightning Network. The Lightning Network (LN) is a payment protocol built on the bitcoin blockchain. [1] It is intended to enable fast transactions among participating nodes (independently run members of the network) and has been proposed as a solution to the bitcoin scalability problem. [2][3][4]

9. Proof of work - Wikipedia

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   Bitcoin is a proof-of-work digital currency that, like Finney's RPoW, is also based on the Hashcash PoW. But in bitcoin, double-spend protection is provided by a decentralized P2P protocol for tracking transfers of coins, rather than the hardware trusted computing function used by RPoW. bitcoin has better trustworthiness because it is protected ...