$BTC

🔹 Name: Bitcoin

🔹 Ticker Symbol: BTC

🔹 Launched: January 3, 2009

🔹 Creator: Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonymous)

🔹 Blockchain Type: Public, decentralized

🔹 Consensus Mechanism: Proof of Work (PoW)

🔹 Max Supply: 21 million BTC

🔹 Current Status: Most valuable and widely adopted cryptocurrency

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🔍 What is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is the first and most prominent cryptocurrency, created as a peer-to-peer digital currency. It allows users to send and receive money over the internet without needing a bank or central authority. Transactions are verified by network nodes and recorded on a blockchain, a public distributed ledger.

💡 Key Features:

Decentralization: No central entity controls Bitcoin.

Scarcity: Only 21 million BTC will ever exist.

Security: Secured by miners solving cryptographic problems.

Transparency: All transactions are publicly recorded.

Divisibility: 1 BTC = 100,000,000 satoshis.

📈 Uses:

Digital payments

Store of value (often called "digital gold")

Investment and trading

Bitcoin revolutionized how people view money, inspiring the creation of thousands of other cryptocurrencies.

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