. Bitcoin (BTC)
Market cap: $758.3 billion
Year-over-year return: 70%
Roughly 14 years after its creation, bitcoin is still by far the most popular and valuable cryptocurrency in the world. Bitcoin was created by a mysterious person or group of people using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, and its blockchain-based, decentralized transaction verification and public ledger system revolutionized how people think about digital security.
While bitcoinâs decentralization and transparency make it appealing to investors and users, critics have raised concerns about its energy-intensive proof-of-work consensus mechanism and pointed out difficulties in scaling the network. In addition, there are now several large-scale crypto projects that have higher transaction speeds than bitcoin and others that have blockchains with special designs to improve bitcoinâs functionality.#TrendingTopic #BTC information
