Bitcoin

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Bitcoin
instantia de: software libere, communication protocol[*], Blockchain[*], payment system[*], numerario, reserve currency[*], crypto asset[*], cryptomoneta, legal tender[*]
subclasse de: investment[*]


data de creation: 3 januario 2009
sito web official: https://bitcoin.org/
Commons: Bitcoin

Le Bitcoin (symbolo: BTC, XBT, ₿) es un cryptomoneta global e systema de pagamento digital,[1] nominate le prime moneta digital discentralisate proque le systema functiona sin alcun repositorio central o administrator singular.[2] Illo esseva inventate per un programmator incognite, o gruppo de programmatores, con le nomine Satoshi Nakamoto[3] e publicate como software in codice aperite in 2009.[4] Le systema es par-a-par e le transactiones occurre directemente inter usatores sin alcun intermediario. Iste transactiones es verificate per nodos del rete e registrate in un libro public major distribuite appellate un blockchain.

On pote excambiar bitcoin pro altere monetas,[5] productos e servicios. In februario 2015 plus que un cento mille mercatores e venditores acceptava le bitcoin como pagamento. Le bitcoin pote esser etiam tenite como un investimento. Secundo recerca producite per le Universitate de Cambridge in 2017, il ha inter 2,9 e 5,8 milliones de usatores unic qui usa un portafolio cryptomonetari, de quales le majoritate usa bitcoin.[6] Le 1me de augusto 2017 le bitcoin se divideva in duo cryptomonetas digital derivative, le bitcoin classic (BTC) e le Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

Referentias[modificar | modificar fonte]

  1. Bitcoin: A Primer for Policymakers. Mercatus Center. George Mason University (2013). Archivo del original create le 21 September 2013. Recuperate le 22 October 2013.
  2. Sagona-Stophel, Katherine. Bitcoin 101 white paper. Thomson Reuters. Archivo del original create le 13 August 2016. Recuperate le 20 November 2015.
  3. "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?", The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Limited (2 November 2015). Recuperate le 23 September 2016. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. 
  4. Davis, Joshua (10 October 2011). The Crypto-Currency: Bitcoin and its mysterious inventor. The New Yorker. Archivo del original create le 1 November 2014. Recuperate le 31 October 2014.
  5. "What is Bitcoin?", CNN Money. Recuperate le 16 November 2015. Archived from the original on 31 October 2015. 
  6. Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study. Cambridge University. Archivo del original create le 10 April 2017. Recuperate le 14 April 2017.