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What Is River Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a payment system, first proposed by an anonymous person or group of people under the name Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008.

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 is decentralized; no single institution controls the network. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public dispersed ledger called a blockchain.

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Bitcoin is unique in that there are a finite number of them: 21 million.

Bitcoins are issued to various nodes that verify transactions through computing power; it is established that there will be a limited and scheduled release of no more than 21 million bitcoins overall. “Mining” is the process through which new bitcoins are created and transactions are verified and added to the blockchain ledger.

Miners are rewarded with transaction fees and newly created bitcoins.

Bitcoin has been criticized for its use in illegal transactions, its high electricity consumption, price volatility, thefts from exchanges, and the possibility that bitcoin is an economic bubble.

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