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Prerequisites

What_is_a_Ledger

What_is_a_Blockchain

What_are_Seeds_and_Public_Private_Keys

What_is_Mining

What_is_a_Wallet

What_is_a_Consensus_Mechanism

What_is_Cryptography

Subgraph

graph LR 1["What is a Ledger"]-->0{"What is Bitcoin"} 2["What is a Blockchain"]-->0{"What is Bitcoin"} 3["What are Seeds and Public Private Keys"]-->0{"What is Bitcoin"} 4["What is Mining"]-->0{"What is Bitcoin"} 5["What is a Wallet"]-->0{"What is Bitcoin"} 6["What is a Consensus Mechanism"]-->0{"What is Bitcoin"} 7["What is Cryptography"]-->0{"What is Bitcoin"} 0{"What is Bitcoin"}-->8["How to Setup a Wallet"] 0{"What is Bitcoin"}-->9["Security Concerns For the Whole Network"] 0{"What is Bitcoin"}-->10["What is Ethereum"] 0{"What is Bitcoin"}-->11["What is an Update"] 0{"What is Bitcoin"}-->12["What is an Exchange"] 0{"What is Bitcoin"}-->13["What is the Lightning Network"] 0{"What is Bitcoin"}-->14["What is a Layer 2"] 0{"What is Bitcoin"}-->15["What is Bitcoins Monetary Policy"] 0{"What is Bitcoin"}-->16["What About Cross Chain"] click 1 "../What_is_a_Ledger" "What is a Ledger" click 2 "../What_is_a_Blockchain" "What is a Blockchain" click 3 "../What_are_Seeds_and_Public_Private_Keys" "What are Seeds and Public Private Keys" click 4 "../What_is_Mining" "What is Mining" click 5 "../What_is_a_Wallet" "What is a Wallet" click 6 "../What_is_a_Consensus_Mechanism" "What is a Consensus Mechanism" click 7 "../What_is_Cryptography" "What is Cryptography" click 8 "../How_to_Setup_a_Wallet" "How to Setup a Wallet" click 9 "../Security_Concerns_For_the_Whole_Network" "Security Concerns For the Whole Network" click 10 "../What_is_Ethereum" "What is Ethereum" click 11 "../What_is_an_Update" "What is an Update" click 12 "../What_is_an_Exchange" "What is an Exchange" click 13 "../What_is_the_Lightning_Network" "What is the Lightning Network" click 14 "../What_is_a_Layer_2" "What is a Layer 2" click 15 "../What_is_Bitcoins_Monetary_Policy" "What is Bitcoins Monetary Policy" click 16 "../What_About_Cross_Chain" "What About Cross Chain"

Description

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a payment system first proposed by an anonymous person or group of people under the name Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public dispersed ledger called a blockchain. Bitcoin is unique in that there are a finite number of them: 21 million. Bitcoins are created as a reward for a process known as mining. They can be exchanged for other currencies products and services. As of February 2015 over 100

Links

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Bitcoin GitHub Repository: https://github.com/bitcoin