Bitcoin
About Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The currency began use in 2009 when its implementation was released as open-source software. 1 Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain.
Stats
- Popularity
- #1
- Market cap
- $558,659,964,908
- Total supply
- 21,000,000 BTC
- All-time high
- $69,045
- 24h high
- $30,498
- 24h low
- $28,816