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2. Cryptocurrency - Wikipedia

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   Main article: Cryptocurrency wallet. A cryptocurrency wallet is a means of storing the public and private "keys" (address) or seed, which can be used to receive or spend the cryptocurrency. [ 86 ] With the private key, it is possible to write in the public ledger, effectively spending the associated cryptocurrency.

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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   Chinese cryptocurrency exchange Bter lost $2.1 million in BTC in February 2015. The Slovenian exchange Bitstamp lost bitcoin worth $5.1 million to a hack in January 2015. The US-based exchange Cryptsy declared bankruptcy in January 2016, ostensibly because of a 2014 hacking incident; the court-appointed receiver later alleged that Cryptsy's CEO ...

5. Cryptocurrency: What it is and how it works - AOL

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   July 19, 2024 at 4:55 PM. Cryptocurrency is a kind of digital currency that is intended to act as a medium of exchange. Cryptocurrency has become popular in the last decade, in particular, with ...

6. Digital currency - Wikipedia

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   Taxonomy of money, based on "Central bank cryptocurrencies" by Morten Linnemann Bech and Rodney Garratt. Digital currency (digital money, electronic money or electronic currency) is any currency, money, or money-like asset that is primarily managed, stored or exchanged on digital computer systems, especially over the internet.

7. 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).

8. 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 ...

9. Virtual currency - Wikipedia

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   Virtual currency. Virtual currency, or virtual money, is a digital currency that is largely unregulated, issued and usually controlled by its developers, and used and accepted electronically among the members of a specific virtual community. [1] In 2014, the European Banking Authority defined virtual currency as "a digital representation of ...