$BTC Satoshi Nakamoto wanted to create and succeeded in making a decentralized alternative to traditional money, which is subject to inflation, manipulation, and censorship from any governments and banks. In October 2009, the first exchange rate of BTC to the US dollar was established: 1 bitcoin was equal to $0.000764.

Each bitcoin is divided into 100 million parts, called satoshis (in honor of its creator Satoshi Nakamoto). This means that you can buy, sell, transfer, or send very small amounts, for example, 0.00000001 BTC or one satoshi. This makes cryptocurrency convenient for micropayments.

The main difference between bitcoin and regular money is that it is stored not in a few payment systems and banks, but on all computers simultaneously that operate with coins. Anyone has the ability to access all information about cryptocurrency for the entire time of its existence.

Bitcoin is much better than fiat money equivalents (dollars, rubles, etc.) that are under centralized control. For example, WMZ (the equivalent of the dollar in the Webmoney payment system) can fall into the hands of a fraudster if they gain access to the Webmoney server. In the case of bitcoin, this is not the case.