 | The Bitcoin protocol is the set of rules that govern the functioning of Bitcoin. Its key components and principles are: a peer-to-peer decentralized network... 22 KB (3,055 words) - 05:06, 28 April 2024 |
 | original bitcoin protocol in 2008 and launched the network in 2009. Nakamoto was responsible for creating the majority of the official bitcoin software... 152 KB (13,135 words) - 22:43, 10 May 2024 |
Bitcoin forks are defined variantly as changes in the protocol of the bitcoin network or as the situations that occur "when two or more blocks have the... 11 KB (1,106 words) - 01:15, 29 March 2023 |
| proof-of-work difficulty adjustment settings of bitcoin's consensus protocol, constitutes a bottleneck in bitcoin's transaction processing capacity. This can... 13 KB (2,046 words) - 19:51, 30 January 2024 |
to the Bitcoin protocol that would improve Bitcoin transactions' anonymity by having coin-mixing capabilities natively built into the protocol.[citation... 19 KB (1,817 words) - 21:12, 24 February 2024 |
original Ethereum white paper by Vitalik Buterin in 2014 describes the Bitcoin protocol as a weak version of the smart contract concept as originally defined... 34 KB (3,324 words) - 03:03, 16 April 2024 |
 | or other symbols. Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: â‚¿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Nodes in the peer-to-peer bitcoin network verify transactions... 101 KB (8,152 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2024 |
Silk Road (marketplace) (redirect from United States v. Approximately 69,370 Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Bitcoin SV (BSV), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) seized from 1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx) through a vulnerability in Bitcoin protocol called "transaction malleability." While the site remained online, all the bitcoins in its escrow accounts, valued... 80 KB (7,035 words) - 04:34, 4 May 2024 |
 | El Salvador became the first country in the world to use bitcoin as legal tender, after having been adopted as such by the Legislative Assembly of El... 38 KB (3,977 words) - 02:47, 4 May 2024 |
 | open source cryptocurrency. It is an altcoin that was forked from the Bitcoin protocol. It is also a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) run by a... 7 KB (557 words) - 00:23, 21 April 2024 |
 | The Lightning Network (LN) is a "layer 2" payment protocol built on the Bitcoin blockchain and those of other cryptocurrencies. It is intended to enable... 16 KB (1,646 words) - 08:49, 16 April 2024 |
| described altcoins in 2020 as "alternative versions of Bitcoin" given its role as the model protocol for cryptocurrency designers. A Polytechnic University... 210 KB (19,003 words) - 07:52, 4 May 2024 |
Colored Coins (category Bitcoin) Coins is an open-source protocol that allows users to represent and manipulate immutable digital resources on top of Bitcoin transactions. They are a... 34 KB (4,365 words) - 20:20, 6 May 2024 |
 | current 10 minute block, yielding them a reward in bitcoins. A transition to the proof-of-stake protocol, which has better energy efficiency, has been described... 30 KB (2,706 words) - 06:09, 26 April 2024 |
Proof of work (section Bitcoin-type proof of work) systems such as bitcoin, which uses a system similar to Hashcash. There are two classes of proof-of-work protocols. Challenge–response protocols assume a direct... 25 KB (2,758 words) - 09:52, 23 April 2024 |
 | Nostr (redirect from Noster (protocol)) 000 worth of bitcoin to the developers of the project. In January 2023 Nostr reached 100,000 users.[citation needed] As an Open protocol and FOSS project... 6 KB (453 words) - 17:02, 10 May 2024 |
Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) is a full node implementation for the bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash networks. The Bitcoin Core client, from which Bitcoin Unlimited... 6 KB (590 words) - 02:33, 2 April 2024 |
Dark web (redirect from Bitcoin services on the dark web) Bitcoin is one of the main cryptocurrencies used in dark web marketplaces due to the flexibility and relative anonymity of the currency. With Bitcoin... 59 KB (5,357 words) - 11:06, 21 April 2024 |
 | Calvin Ayre (section Bitcoin involvement) protocol that Ayre opposed. Ayre maintains that although Bitcoin SV (Satoshi Vision) trades under the ticker BSV, it is the original Bitcoin protocol... 34 KB (3,547 words) - 10:20, 27 February 2024 |
Blockchain (category Bitcoin) between 14 and 15 seconds, while for bitcoin it is on average 10 minutes. A hard fork is a change to the blockchain protocol that is not backward compatible... 120 KB (11,941 words) - 08:05, 22 April 2024 |
 | DNSSEC, various caching schemes (such as DNS cache), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Bitcoin [citation needed]and a number of persistent login schemes. NTP... 57 KB (5,898 words) - 05:07, 3 May 2024 |
Classic, or avert catastrophic bugs on a blockchain as was the case with the bitcoin fork on 6 August 2010.[citation needed] The concept of blockchain technology... 12 KB (1,363 words) - 12:26, 31 March 2024 |
Since the creation of bitcoin in 2009, the number of new cryptocurrencies has expanded rapidly. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority estimated there were... 36 KB (1,332 words) - 19:03, 24 March 2024 |
Double-spending (redirect from Bitcoin Gold Double Spend Attack) had been proposed. The cryptocurrency Bitcoin implemented a solution in early 2009. Its cryptographic protocol used a proof-of-work consensus mechanism... 8 KB (962 words) - 14:49, 8 May 2024 |
company. Released in 2012, Ripple is built upon a distributed open source protocol, and supports tokens representing fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodities... 16 KB (1,498 words) - 17:33, 27 March 2024 |
inspired by the application of economic incentives in the original Bitcoin protocol in 2008. Although the phrase is typically attributed to Vitalik Buterin... 14 KB (1,138 words) - 20:42, 23 March 2024 |
 | Stellar (payment network) (category Internet protocols) Kim. Before the official launch, McCaleb formed a website called "Secret Bitcoin Project" seeking alpha testers. The nonprofit Stellar Development Foundation... 15 KB (1,299 words) - 21:46, 28 December 2023 |
Bitcoin was designed by its pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, to work as a currency, but its status as a currency is disputed. Economists define... 91 KB (8,585 words) - 10:57, 2 March 2024 |
Monero (category Application layer protocols) Monero, other privacy-enhanced cryptocurrencies, the Bitcoin Lightning Network, or other "layer 2" protocol. The contract was awarded to blockchain analysis... 34 KB (2,993 words) - 10:08, 9 May 2024 |
Litecoin (section Differences from Bitcoin) open-source software project released under the MIT/X11 license. Inspired by Bitcoin, Litecoin was among the earliest altcoins, starting in October 2011. In... 16 KB (1,439 words) - 01:53, 25 April 2024 |