📘 Bitcoin Technical Sheet ( #BTC )

🔹 Name: Bitcoin
🔹 Symbol: ₿
🔹 Ticker: BTC
🔹 Launch: January 3, 2009
🔹 Creator: #Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym)
🔹 Network Type: Decentralized Blockchain
🔹 Consensus Algorithm: Proof of Work (SHA-256)
🔹 Maximum Supply: 21,000,000 BTC
🔹 Blocks per Day: ~144
🔹 Block Time: ~10 minutes
🔹 Current Block Reward: 3.125 BTC (post-halving 2024)
🔹 Halving: Every 210,000 blocks (~every 4 years)
🔹 First Real Transaction: 10,000 BTC for two pizzas (May 22, 2010)

🔹 Advantages:

  • Total decentralization 🌐

  • Limited supply = programmed scarcity 📉

  • High security through mining ⛏️

  • Independence from governments or banks 🏛️

  • Global transfers in minutes 🚀

🔹 Risks:

  • Extreme volatility 📊

  • Risk of loss due to bad practices (private keys) 🔐

  • Possible regulatory restrictions ⚖️

  • Not reversible: once sent, there is no turning back 🔁

🔹 Use Cases:

  • Store of value (“digital gold”) 🪙

  • Remittances without intermediaries 💸

  • Hedge against inflation 🏦🔥

  • Basis for decentralized financial technologies ⚙️💬 Key fact: Every day there are fewer BTC available. Do you have yours yet?