Bitcoin History

Bitcoin (BTC), a merge of the words bit and coin, was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. It was the first decentralized virtual currency as well as the first technology to use the blockchain, a shared public ledger. Bitcoin is peer to peer open source project and can be used by anyone. It allows worldwide payments, instantly.

About Bitcoin (BTC)

Name	Bitcoin
Symbol	BTC / XBT
Algorithm	SHA-256
Mineable
Consensus	Proof of Work (PoW)
Start Date	3rd January 2009

Bitcoin by the numbers

Market Pos	#1
USD Price	$3,958.51
Market Cap	$69,449,893,986.63
Volume	$6,487,788,364.11
Supply	17,551,487.00
Difficulty	6061518831027

Bitcoin links

Website	bitcoin.org
Whitepaper	https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf
Announcement
Explorer	http://blockchain.info/
Source Code	https://github.com/bitcoin/

Bitcoin Cloud Miners

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Hashflare	0.0007 BTC	Read Review
Genesis Mining	0.0006 BTC	Read Review
MyCoinCloud	0.0014 BTC	Read Review

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Exchanges	Type	Fees	Review
Binance	Trading Platform	Maker: 0.1% Taker: 0.1%	Read Review
Bitfinex	Trading Platform	Maker: 0.1% Taker: 0.2%	Read Review
Changelly	Instant Exchange	USD: 10% BTC: 0.5%	Read Review

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