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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 (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Nodes in the peer-to-peer bitcoin network verify transactions through cryptography and record them in a public distributed ledger, called a blockchain, without central oversight.

4. Blockchain - Wikipedia

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   Blockchain. A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes. [1][2][3][4] Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree, where data nodes are represented by leaves).

5. Cryptocurrency - Wikipedia

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   Bitcoin is the least energy-efficient cryptocurrency, using 707.6 kilowatt-hours of electricity per transaction. [257] Before June 2021, China was the primary location for Bitcoin mining. However, due to concerns over power usage and other factors, China forced out Bitcoin operations, at least temporarily.

6. History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   The history of bitcoin started with its invention and implementation by Satoshi Nakamoto, who integrated many existing ideas from the cryptography community. Over the course of bitcoin's history, it has undergone rapid growth to become a significant store of value both on- and offline.

7. Lightning Network - Wikipedia

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   The Lightning Network (LN) is a payment protocol built on the Bitcoin blockchain and those of other cryptocurrencies. [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] It is a peer-to-peer system for ...

8. The hotshot founder of an $80 million crypto fund disappeared ...

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   Gan raised Inception’s first fund during crypto’s last major bull cycle in 2021, a time when Bitcoin and Ethereum prices were soaring and deep-pocketed investors lined up to fire off checks at ...

9. Satoshi Nakamoto - Wikipedia

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   Satoshi Nakamoto. 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 blockchain database. [6]