What is Bitcoin?


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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you have by now at least heard of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is essentially a digital currency (AKA, electronic cash or cryptocurrency) where transactional integrity is secured cryptographically. Bitcoin stores those transactions on a distributed database called a blockchain. The whole cryptocurrency craze started in 2008, when Satoshi Nakamoto published … Read more