Bitcoin

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wikipedia:Bitcoin (Oct 2008)

Bitcoin is based on secp256k1 elliptic curve encrypted with the ECDSA algorithm.

The PoW requires miners to find a number called a nonce, such that when the block content is hashed along with the nonce, the result is numerically smaller than the network's difficulty target.

Activities

• Read Bitcoin protocol documentation https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation
• Review wikipedia:List of bitcoin companies

Related terms

• wikipedia:Satoshi Nakamoto [email protected] (1&1)
• SHA-256
• MicroStrategy
• "Bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money" Elon Musk
• Grayscale
• Swissborg

See also

• Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), blockchain.com, Coinbase, Cryptocurrency wallet, Ripple, Grayscale, Hummingbot, USD Coin, Zcash, Polkadot, bitcoin-cli, BSV, Bitmain, Hal Finney, List of bitcoin forks, Lightning Network, Minsc, SegWit, Bitcoin mining, BIP, Bech32, Ordinals, SPV, Bitcoin testnet, Satoshi Nakamoto, BRC-20, Bitcoin genesis block, Bitcoin address