2. WHAT IS BITCOIN?
A peer-to-peer internet currency that
allows decentralized transfers of value
between individuals and businesses.
3. BITCOIN THE PROTOCOL
A distributed network that maintains a
ledger of balances of bitcoin-the-
token.
Otherwise known as the Block Chain.
4. HISTORY OF BIT COIN
In 1983, American cryptographer David Chaum
conceived of a type of cryptographic electronic
money called ecash.
Later, in 1995, he implemented it through
Digicash an early form of cryptographic electronic
payments.
In January 2009, Bitcoin was created by
pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto.
5. UNITS AND DIVISIBILITY
The unit of account of the bitcoin system
is the bitcoin.
Currency codes for representing bitcoin
are BTC and XBT.
Its Unicode character is ₿.
6. BLOCKCHAIN
A publicly accessible Ledger
Ordered chronologically in blocks
Unchangeable
Verified by a decentralized network of
miners
7. The bitcoin blockchain is a public ledger
that records bitcoin transactions.
It is implemented as a chain of blocks,
each block containing a cryptographic
hash of the previous block up to the
genesis block in the chain.
8. WHAT IS BLOCK CHIN?
A blockchain is a type of distributed ledger
technology (DLT) that consists of growing list of
records, called blocks, that are securely linked
together using cryptography.
Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the
previous block, a timestamp, and transaction
data.
10. OWNERSHIP
Users create accounts called wallets.
Wallets are secured using passwords and
contain the private keys used for
transferring bitcoins.
12. MINING BITCOINS
Miners solve complicated algorithms to
find a solution called a hash.
Finding a hash creates a block that is used
to process transactions.
Each new block is added to the block
chain.
13. WALLETS
A wallet stores the information necessary
to transact bitcoins.
While wallets are often described as a
place to hold or store bitcoins, due to the
nature of the system, bitcoins are
inseparable from the blockchain
transaction ledger.
15. COLD STORAGE
Wallet software is targeted by hackers
because of the lucrative potential for
stealing bitcoins.
A technique called "cold storage" keeps
private keys out of reach of hackers.
This is accomplished by keeping private
keys offline at all times.
16. BITCOIN CORE
The start screen under Fedora Linux
Original author(s) Satoshi Nakamoto
Initial release 2009
Stable release 23.0 (25 April 2022; 6 months ago) [±]
Repository github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
WRITTEN IN C++
Operating system Linux, Windows, macOS
Type Cryptocurrency
License MIT License
Website bitcoincore.org