Bitcoin
Ranking
No. 1
Market Capitalization
$1.93T
≈ 2.21P ARS
Fully Diluted Market Cap
$2.05T
≈ 2.35P ARS
Market Dominance
57.85%
Volume
$42.17B
≈ 48.23T ARS
Volume/Market Capitalization
2.18%
Circulating Supply
19,786,668 BTC
Max Supply
21,000,000 BTC
Total Supply
19,786,668 BTC
Issue Date
2008-10-31
All-Time High
$99,655.50107863353
≈ 113,966,031.03 ARS
2024-11-22
All-Time Low
$0.04864654
≈ 55.63 ARS
2010-07-14
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Intro
Bitcoin (BTC) is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that aims to serve as a medium of exchange independent of central authorities. BTC can be transferred electronically in a secure, verifiable, and immutable manner.
Launched in 2009, BTC was the first virtual currency to solve the double-spending problem by timestamping transactions before broadcasting them to all nodes on the Bitcoin network. The Bitcoin protocol offered a solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem with a blockchain network structure, a notion first created by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta in 1991.
The Bitcoin white paper was published in 2008 by a person, or perhaps a group of people, under the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto", whose underlying identity has yet to be verified.
The Bitcoin protocol uses a proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm based on SHA-256d to achieve consensus on the network. Its network has a target block time of 10 minutes and a maximum supply of 21 million tokens, with a declining token issuance rate. To avoid block time fluctuation, the network's block difficulty is readjusted through an algorithm based on the block time of the last 2016 blocks.