Bitcoin | |
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Website | http://www.bitcoin.org/ |
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Details | |
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. |
Peer-to-peer topology | Yes |
Single central authority | No |
Uses cryptography | Yes |
API | Yes RPC through bitcoind, specialist libraries for Java (BitcoinJ), JavaScript (BitcoinJS), C/C++ (libbitcoin). Support for 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) |
License | MIT License (free to use for everyone with no restrictions) |
Founded | 2009-01-03 |
Founder(s) | Satoshi Nakamoto, Gavin Andresen |
Origin | USA |
Wikipedia | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin |
History | See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/History |
Social Networks | |
http://twitter.com/bitcoinmedia | |
Video tour | https://youtu.be/Um63OQz3bjo |
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