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High: $ 43,146.23
Low: $ 43,870.71
All Time High
$ 68,789.63
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+0.87%
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BTC Market Information
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#1
Market Cap
$ 833.80B
Volume (24hours)
$ 24.62B
Circulation Supply
$ 19.01M
About Bitcoin (BTC)
Bitcoin is one of the most popular cryptocurrencies in the market. First introduced in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin has held the crypto market’s number one spot according to market capitalization. Bitcoin paved the way for many existing altcoins in the market and marked a pivotal moment for digital payment solutions.
As the world’s first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has come a long way in terms of its value. However, one does not have to buy an entire bitcoin as bitcoins can be divided into small units called satoshis, named after the creator. A satoshi is equivalent to 0.00000001 bitcoin.
There is no physical BTC token so you can think of bitcoin as digital money. Bitcoin transactions are fully transparent and can’t be censored. You can send money to anyone in the world with ease. It’s a financial system backed by thousands of computers, known as ‘nodes’, around the world, instead of a single central bank or government, i.e. hence the term ‘decentralization’.
Bitcoin Upgrades
Because Bitcoin is decentralized and community-driven, many upgrades to Bitcoin come in the form of formal proposals called Bitcoin Improvement Proposals, or BIPs. This ensures that the software is always undergoing upgrades that can further contribute to the community’s needs. Anyone can propose a BIP, and the community will reject or approve of the BIP collectively. One major upgrade to Bitcoin’s consensus protocol is the SegWit Upgrade, proposed in BIP 141 and designed to help the bitcoin scale to support more transactions to meet growing demand. BIPs like these change Bitcoin’s consensus rules, resulting in forks.
Bitcoin Forks
Forks are the points where software is copied and modified, resulting in two chains with a shared original chain. There are two types of forks–soft and hard forks. Soft forks are upgrades that still allow un-upgraded nodes to interact with upgraded nodes. Hard forks are upgrades that do not allow un-upgraded nodes to interact with upgraded ones. Bitcoin Cash is an example of a hard fork of Bitcoin.
Because Bitcoin is decentralized, it is not subjected to inflation or any monetary policies created by any central banks or government. Instead, there will only ever be 21 million BTC in existence.
Common Bitcoin Misconceptions
Bitcoin is just a passing phase.
Bitcoin and blockchain technology introduce solutions for real-world issues, seeking to help the unbanked population, combat counterfeiting and improve cross-border transactions to name a few. Even if we disregard the notion of bitcoin as a speculative asset or store of value, it is likely here to stay and disrupt many sectors.
Bitcoins can be copied and pasted, making them easy to counterfeit.
No, thanks to the Bitcoin protocol, your bitcoin cannot be copied. The word ‘crypto’ in ‘cryptocurrency’ comes from the word ‘cryptography’, a technique that allows for secure communication, meaning that it is impossible to counterfeit bitcoin, unlike fiat. In fact, Bitcoin solves the issue of double-spending, a loophole in traditional digital cash that allows a user to spend the same amount of funds twice.
Bitcoin is bad for the environment.
A significant percentage of bitcoin mining uses renewable energy (wind, solar, hydro etc) instead of traditional energy sources that are bad for the environment.
Bitcoin Resources
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People Also Ask: Other Questions About Bitcoin
How Many Bitcoins Are There?
Bitcoin has a circulating supply of 18,832,712 BTC and a maximum supply of 21,000,000 (21 Million) BTC tokens.
What Role Does Bitcoin Have as a Store of Value?
Bitcoin is valued as a useful form of money, and is measured by its growth of users, merchants and accepted locations.
How Is Bitcoin (BTC) Different From Bitcoin Cash (BCH)?
Bitcoin's block size is capped at 1 MB, while Bitcoin Cash's block size is capped at 32 MB.
Why Do Bitcoin Price Changes Impact Other Coins?
Due to its pioneer status, a lot of investors view it as the crypto market’s reserve so other coins depend on its value to remain high.
How Secure Is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is secured with a Proof-of-Work (PoW) mechanism, which means millions of miners work together to secure the decentralized network. Each miner keeps a record of all transactions. Forcing a transaction is impossible because they would have to control 51% of all miners.
What Is Bitcoin Mining?
Bitcoin mining is the process where miners contribute the processing power of their hardware rigs to solve cryptographic puzzles from each transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain. Miners receive BTC for solving cryptographic puzzles, and transactions are recorded in blocks that get added to the blockchain.
How Can I Store My Bitcoin?
Because BTC is a digital currency, it is stored in a digital wallet. Here are two ways to store your Bitcoin:
Store your BTC on Binance exchange
If you are looking for quick access to your BTC to facilitate trading, you can consider storing your Bitcoin on the Binance exchange.
Store your BTC in a Bitcoin wallet
Alternatively, you can store your BTC in an external BTC wallet. There are hot and cold wallet solutions available in the market with different pros and cons, so you can explore the options to see which one suits you best.
BTC Price Live Data
The live price of BTC is $ 43,870.71 per (BTC / USD) today with a current market cap of $ 833.80B USD. 24-hour trading volume is $ 24.62B USD. BTC to USD price is updated in real-time. Bitcoin is +0.87% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of $ 19.01M USD.
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Mexican President might consider making Bitcoin legal tender, Senator says
Samson Mow – former CSO at Blockstream – revealed the Bitcoin adoption plans of three different global jurisdictions on Thursday. One of them includes Mexico – where the nation’s president has extended an invitation to Mow to discuss the possibility.Spreading Bitcoin Adoption WorldwideSpeaking on-stage at the Bitcoin 2022 conference, Mow explained how he’s spent the last month working on “Bitcoin nation-state adoption” ever since leaving Blockstream. He’s also launched a new Bitcoin tech company called “Jan 3”, named after the date that Bitcoin’s genesis block was formed.During that time, the programmer’s influence has spread to places like Prospera – a privately managed developing city on the island of Roatán in Honduras. The city’s President – Joel Bomgar – revealed that Bitcoin in Prospera operates as legal tender. “That means no capital gains tax on Bitcoin, you can transact freely using Bitcoin, and you can pay taxes and fees to the jurisdiction in Bitcoin,” Bomgar explained. Furthermore, Prospera will enable other municipalities in Honduras, and corporations outside the U.S., to float Bitcoin bonds from within Prospera’s jurisdiction. These will operate in a similar way to the Bitcoin bonds being planned by El Salvador, which were also built in collaboration with Samson Mow.Secondly, the autonomous region of Madeira in Portugal also plans to “adopt” the cryptocurrency. Following up after Bomgar, Madeira President Miguel Albuquerque told the audience that he believes in the future, and in Bitcoin.Though he made no mention of making Bitcoin legal tender, Albuquerque said that Bitcoiners need not pay tax when buying or selling the asset in his region. He also stated that he will continue to work on creating a “fantastic environment for Bitcoin”.Mexico on a Bitcoin Standard?Finally, Senator Indira Kempis stepped in to give an update on Mexico’s Bitcoin adoption plans. Kempis claimed last month that she wanted to make the cryptocurrency legal tender in Mexico, second after El Salvador.Though the chances at the time seemed slim, what she revealed today makes the odds of such a change look far more probable. Relaying a message to Mow from the President, she said that he’d like to sit down with the Bitcoiner to discuss making Bitcoin legal tender across Mexico.The senator has been busy submitting bills to make financial inclusion and education a constitutional right for the Mexican population. She’s also been trying to modify regulations around fintech and monetary law – summarized by Mow as a “Bitcoin law”.
Andrew Throuvalas-CryptoPotato
4 hrs ago
#Legal tender
#regulations
#Bitcoin
Strike announces Shopify integration for Bitcoin Lightning Payments
Strike announced an integration with Shopify in a bid to help merchants receive bitcoin payments from customers in the form of U.S. dollars.Speaking before a packed house at the Miami Beach Conference Center mainstage, Mallers, an ardent bitcoiner and Lightning Network advocate, said his “King’s gambit” would bring bitcoin back to its payments roots.“If we can help make the Bitcoin network more accessible and usable we believe we can change the world,” he said. Leveraging Bitcoin for a cheap “payment network” is critical to that, he said, contrasting it with the “caviar-eating” history of boomer bank-issued credit cards that he said hasn’t innovated (beyond onboarding middlemen and their fees) in years.“There’s not been since 1949 a superior payments network that allows us to innovate” for consumers, he claimed. “Let’s build the superior payments network from scratch.”His lead-up laced in sarcasm, Mallers’ payoff was simple: Bitcoin’s Lightning Network “carries all the properties” for homegrown success.
Danny Nelson-Coindesk
7 hrs ago
#Shopify
#Strike
#Bitcoin
Michael Saylor: Biden’s executive order akin to POTUS giving 'Greenlight to Bitcoin’
MIAMI-MicroStrategy (MSTR) CEO Michael Saylor and ARK’s Cathie Wood gave a number of reasons for why they think bitcoin will continue to gain adoption and increase in price in a chat at the Bitcoin 2022 conference on Thursday.Speaking to a packed house of the bitcoin faithful who gave the pair a standing ovation at their introduction, Saylor and Wood laid out several political and technological reasons for their optimism about the world’s biggest cryptocurrency.On the political front, Saylor, whose company owns roughly $6 billion worth of bitcoin, said President Biden’s recent executive order directing various federal agencies to coordinate their approach to regulating the sector amounted to the “President of the United States giving a greenlight to bitcoin.”“If I scan the last 100 years of history [and ask] when was the last time the President of the United States directed the government to embrace a new asset class, the answer is never," Saylor said. He described the order as Biden telling different U.S. agencies to "get educated on bitcoin and figure out how to get it incorporated into the government."Wood agreed that there has been growing political support for bitcoin in the U.S.“You’re seeing the politics around bitcoin changing radically because it has become the single issue that some people are voting on, and this is becoming bipartisan,” said Wood, who envisions bitcoin reaching $1 million by 2030.Wood did sound one note of political caution, however, pointing to China’s strong support of blockchain several years ago, only to eventually ban much of the activity around it in favor of their own CBDC.“I don’t hear talk about that here and haven’t heard much talk about ‘hey, this is going to displace the dollar as the reserve currency of the world,’” said Wood. “That’s very good we’re not hearing that kind of rhetoric here. But I’m sure as the elections evolve, someone will raise that as an issue.Praise for the Lightning NetworkAs for the technological forces driving adoption, Saylor and Wood pointed to the growing number of platforms integrating the Lightning Network as improving bitcoin’s usefulness as a medium of exchange.“I think every crypto exchange, if they’re going to remain viable and competitive, they need to build Lightning into their exchange,” said Saylor, citing Kraken and Cash App’s recent announcements about incorporating the Lightning Network.Wood was similarly sanguine about the rapidly growing payments technology.“I think we’ll see an explosion of developers focused on Lightning Network,” said Wood. “This will be the missing link in terms of use case. Store of value – it’s always been there [for bitcoin]. But means of exchange and unit of account now have much a better opportunity for bitcoin to dominate long term.”Saylor said he thinks bitcoin’s real potential will be realized when billions of people around the world have a mobile phone and an app with a Lighting wallet, and that wallet has some bitcoin on it as a store of value, and some USD or digital euro or Chinese digital yuan on it as a medium of exchange.“Then you’ll see tens of trillions or hundreds of trillions of dollars all moving on Lightning rails secured the bitcoin network,” said Saylor. “That’s when people will wake up and realize, holy crap, this really is going to change the world.”
Nelson Wang-Coindesk
7 hrs ago
#Michael Saylor
#Cathie Wood
#Bitcoin
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