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What Is the Current Price of a Single Bitcoin?

The current price of a single bitcoin is $8,700. 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 in 2008 by an anonymous person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto and started in 2009 when its source code was released as open-source software.

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

NOTE: WARNING: Cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, are highly volatile and can experience sudden and dramatic changes in price. As such, it is important to exercise caution when seeking to purchase or sell Bitcoin, as the current price could be vastly different than the price when you attempt to complete a transaction. Furthermore, cryptocurrency transactions are irreversible, so there is no guarantee that you will receive the currency you purchased or that it will be worth the same amount as when you bought it.

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.

According to research produced by Cambridge University there were between 2.9 million and 5.

8 million unique users using a cryptocurrency wallet, as of 2017, most of them using bitcoin.

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