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Can You Do Smart Contracts on Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain.

Bitcoin was invented by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009.

NOTE: Warning: Smart contracts are not yet available on the Bitcoin network. While some projects have been proposed to enable this, none have been implemented yet. Until smart contract functionality is available on the Bitcoin network, users should be aware that any claims about being able to do so are likely false. Users should exercise extreme caution when considering any transactions involving smart contracts on Bitcoin.

Bitcoins are created as a reward for a process known as mining. They can be exchanged for other currencies, products, and services. As of February 2015, over 100,000 merchants and vendors accepted bitcoin as payment.Research produced by the University of Cambridge estimates that in 2017, there were 2.

9 to 5.8 million unique users using a cryptocurrency wallet, most of them using bitcoin.

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