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BitcoinBTC
Rank #1 by market cap
$62,357.00
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-0.672% 24h
Market cap
$1,250,408,005,632
24h volume
$0
Circulating supply
18,645,812 BTC
Max supply
21,000,000
7d change
0.00%
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Supply
Maximum Supply
Volumn Over 24 hours
18,645,812
21,000,000
0
Price Change 24 Hours
-0.672
%
About
Bitcoin 
(btc)
Market cap rank
#1
CoinGecko rank
#1
CoinGecko score
81.777
Developer score
101.216
Community score
74.961
Liquidity score
99.908
Public interest
0.0
Bitcoin is the first successful internet money based on peer-to-peer technology; whereby no central bank or authority is involved in the transaction and production of the Bitcoin currency. It was created by an anonymous individual/group under the name, Satoshi Nakamoto. The source code is available publicly as an open source project, anybody can look at it and be part of the developmental process.
Bitcoin is changing the way we see money as we speak. The idea was to produce a means of exchange, independent of any central authority, that could be transferred electronically in a secure, verifiable and immutable way. It is a decentralized peer-to-peer internet currency making mobile payment easy, very low transaction fees, protects your identity, and it works anywhere all the time with no central authority and banks.
Bitcoin is designed to have only 21 million BTC ever created, thus making it a deflationary currency. Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm with an average transaction confirmation time of 10 minutes. Miners today are mining Bitcoin using ASIC chip dedicated to only mining Bitcoin, and the hash rate has shot up to peta hashes.
Being the first successful online cryptography currency, Bitcoin has inspired other alternative currencies such as Litecoin, Peercoin, Primecoin, and so on.
The cryptocurrency then took off with the innovation of the turing-complete smart contract by Ethereum which led to the development of other amazing projects such as EOS, Tron, and even crypto-collectibles such as CryptoKitties.
Official & social
Home page
http://www.bitcoin.org
Twitter
@bitcoin
Subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/
Blockchain explorers
Explorer
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/
Explorer
https://btc.com/
Explorer
https://btc.tokenview.com/
Source code
GitHub
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
GitHub
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips
Bitcoin news