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What Is the Smallest Unit of 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.

NOTE: Warning: The smallest unit of Bitcoin is called a Satoshi. It is important to note that the value of a single Satoshi is extremely small and can be difficult to calculate. Due to this, it is not recommended to use Satoshis as a method of payment. Also, it is important to remember that the value of Bitcoin can be volatile and can change quickly. Therefore, it is important to understand the risks associated with investing in Bitcoin before doing so.

Bitcoin is one of the first digital currencies to use peer-to-peer technology to facilitate instant payments. The independent individuals and companies who own the governing computing power and participate in the Bitcoin network, also known as “miners,” are motivated by rewards (the release of new bitcoin) and transaction fees paid in bitcoin.

These miners can be thought of as the decentralized authority enforcing the credibility of the Bitcoin network. New bitcoin is being released to the miners at a fixed, but periodically declining rate, such that the total supply of bitcoins approaches 21 million.

One bitcoin is divisible to eight decimal places (100 millionth of one bitcoin), and this smallest unit is referred to as a satoshi. If necessary, and if the participating miners accept the change, Bitcoin could eventually be made divisible to even more decimal places.

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