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Bitcoin is a decentralized, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency system designed to function as a medium of exchange. Transactions take place between users directly, without an intermediary.

These transactions are verified by network nodes through the use of cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain. Bitcoin is unique in that there are a finite number of them: 21 million.

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. Bitcoin can also be held as an investment.

NOTE: WARNING: Bitcoin Font is a computer font that may be used to display Bitcoin symbols. It is not officially endorsed by the Bitcoin Foundation and may not be compatible with all devices. Use at your own risk.

The Mt. Gox exchange was the largest bitcoin exchange at the time and the undisputed market leader. In 2014, however, Tokyo-based Mt.

Gox filed for bankruptcy protection after losing 750,000 of its customers bitcoins. At the time, this was around 7% of all bitcoins and the market inevitably crashed.

Bitcoin has been labelled a speculative bubble by many including former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and economist John Quiggin. Nobel Memorial Prize laureate Robert Shiller said that bitcoin “exhibited many of the characteristics of a speculative bubble”.

Nobel laureate economists Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman have also criticized bitcoin, stating that bitcoins are not backed by anything tangible and that bubble theories typically go hand in hand with frauds.

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