History of Bitcoin

Last update Nov. 18^th 2013 1:22:11 PM

Creation date Mar. 28^th 2011 2:58:46 PM

Vince on Nov. 18^th 2013 1:22:11 PM
Nombre d'unités max
21000000 BTC
Vince on Nov. 18^th 2013 1:19:15 PM
Concept
PoW
Algo hash
SHA-256
Intervalle entre bloc de transactions
10 min
gary_rowe on Sep. 20^th 2012 10:51:55 AM
License
MIT License (free to use for everyone with no restrictions)
gary_rowe on Sep. 20^th 2012 10:50:51 AM
Status of the project
Project in beta development stage, being used by between 50-100K people around the world. Running continuously for >3 years.
Multiple currency exchanges for major currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, CAD etc) in multiple countries. Multiple merchant solutions for shopping cart integration.
Description
Bitcoin is a digital currency and also refers to the open source software that uses it, and the peer-to-peer network that it forms.
Unlike most currencies, Bitcoin does not rely on trusting any central issuer. Bitcoin uses a distributed database spread across nodes of a peer-to-peer network to journal transactions, and uses cryptography in order to provide basic security functions, such as ensuring that bitcoins can only be spent by the person who owns them, and never more than once.
Irreversible transactions of any value can be sent internationally in moments for next to no significant cost.
gary_rowe on Sep. 20^th 2012 10:43:12 AM
API
yes RPC through bitcoind, specialist libraries for Java (BitcoinJ), JavaScript (BitcoinJS), C/C++ (libbitcoin). Support for Python, Ruby, etc
gary_rowe on Sep. 20^th 2012 10:41:15 AM
Status of the project
Project in beta development stage, being used by between 50-100K people around the world. Running continuously for >3 years.
API
yes Java - BitcoinJ, C/C++ libbitcoin, Python, Ruby, etc
Languages
>15 (spread over different Bitcoin clients) including English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, French, Czech, Japanese, Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia, Korean, Slovak, Chinese (simplified)
History
See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/History
Description
Bitcoin is a digital currency and also refers to the open source software that uses it, and the peer-to-peer network that it forms. Unlike most currencies, Bitcoin does not rely on trusting any central issuer. Bitcoin uses a distributed database spread across nodes of a peer-to-peer network to journal transactions, and uses cryptography in order to provide basic security functions, such as ensuring that bitcoins can only be spent by the person who owns them, and never more than once. Irreversible transactions of any value can be sent internationally in moments for next to no significant cost.
Ron Gross on Mar. 31^st 2011 8:47:56 AM
API
yes BitcoinJ
sgornick on Mar. 31^st 2011 1:05:09 AM
Founded
2009-01-03
sgornick on Mar. 31^st 2011 12:56:56 AM
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo
HasardDuJour on Mar. 28^th 2011 9:53:17 PM
Editor
public
Viewer
public
HasardDuJour on Mar. 28^th 2011 6:51:19 PM
Peer-to-peer topology
yes
Languages
English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Russian
Video
http://blip.tv/play/AYKkqTIC
Status of the project
Project in beta development stage, being used by between 5-10K people around the world.
Origin
USA
Single central authority
no
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
Uses cryptography
yes
HasardDuJour on Mar. 28^th 2011 2:58:46 PM
Mode
70
Name
Bitcoin
Viewer
unlisted
Editor
hasarddujour-f4dmks8
Category
finance
Website
http://www.bitcoin.org/
Twitter
http://twitter.com/bitcoinmedia
Founder(s)
Satoshi Nakamoto, Gavin Andresen
Founded
2009-02-04
Languages
German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Russian
License
MIT License
Description
Bitcoin is a digital currency & also refers to the open source software that uses it, and the peer-to-peer network that it forms. Unlike most currencies, bitcoin does not rely on trusting any central issuer. Bitcoin uses a distributed database spread across nodes of a peer-to-peer network to journal transactions, and uses cryptography in order to provide basic security functions, such as ensuring that bitcoins can only be spent by the person who owns them, and never more than once.

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