Bitcoin
How Does the Network Agree on the Truth?
How does Bitcoin agree on the truth without a central authority? Through Proof-of-Work, mining, and economic incentives that make the blockchain effectively immutable.
Bitcoin
How Does Bitcoin Record Transactions?
From signed transactions to blocks to the blockchain. How Bitcoin creates a tamper-evident record of every transfer ever made.
Bitcoin
How Does Bitcoin Use Cryptography?
Hash functions and key pairs: the two cryptographic foundations that make Bitcoin secure. Explained without math, using examples you can verify yourself.
Bitcoin
Why Was Bitcoin Created?
Bitcoin emerged during the 2008 financial crisis. It solved a problem that decades of research could not: how to transfer value digitally without trusting any institution.
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What Is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is both a new form of money and a new kind of monetary system. Two definitions that explain what makes it different from anything that came before.