BitCoin

Basic Info


Launched: January 3, 2009

By: Sathoshi Nakamoto

Type: POW SHA256

Supply: 21 Million coins with 8 digits each

Speed: 10 minutes

Retarget: 2016 blocks (14 days)

Reward: 50 initially; 25 currently

Reduction: 50% every 210,000 blocks (4 years)

Premined: 0

Fees: optional, but 0.00011 required on transactions with inputs under 0.01

Website: http://bitcoin.org/

Summary

Bitcoin (BTC) is a cryptocurrency first described in a 2008 paper by pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto, who called it a peer-to-peer, electronic cash system.

News

White Paper: http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Announcement: http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10142.html

Current News on Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin&tbm=nws

Websites

Main Site: http://bitcoin.org/

Wallets

Electrum http://electrum.org/

BlockChain https://blockchain.info/wallet/

CoinBase https://coinbase.com/

EZWallet https://github.com/osyed/ew

Exchanges

Only a few major ones are listed here.

MtGox: http://mtgox.com/

BTC-E: http://btc-e.com/

Charts

BitcoinCharts: http://bitcoincharts.com/ BitcoinWisdom: http://bitcoinwisdom.com/

Explorers

BlockExplorer: http://blockexplorer.org/

Pools

Only a few major ones are listed here.

BTC Guild: https://www.btcguild.com/

50BTC: http://50btc.com/

Slush: http://mining.bitcoin.cz/

BitMinter: https://bitminter.com/

Deepbit: http://deepbit.net/

Comparison of Pools: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

Forums

BitcoinTalk: http://bitcointalk.org/

Wiki

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Bitcoin Wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/

source: http://coinwik.org/BitCoin

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