- Transactions
- Timestamp Server
- Proof-of-Work
- Network
- Incentive
- Reclaiming Disk Space
- Simplified Payment Verification
- Combining and Splitting Value
- Privacy


Key Bitcoin Terms

Countries Adopting Bitcoin as Legal Tender

Bitcoin Pricing

- Bitcoin Whitepaper
- Metcalfe's Law as a Model for Bitcoin's Value
- The currency of the far-right: why neo-Nazis love bitcoin
- The Role of Cryptoassets as Legal Tender: The Example of El Salvador




Bitcoin References

A cryptocurrency which uses blockchain as shared, distributed ledger to record and store its transactions. It is the first use of blockchain.

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- Bitcoin (BTC)
- Ethereum (ETH)
- Tether (USDT)
- Cardano (ADA)
- Binance Coin (BNB)
- XRP (XRP)
- Solana (SOL)
- USD Coin (USDC)
- Polkadot (DOT)
- Dogecoin (DOGE)
- Loki (LOKI)

List of cryptocurrencies

Gupta, Manav. Blockchain For Dummies® IBM Limited Edition, IBM, bertrandszoghy.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ibm-blockchain-for-dummies.pdf. 

Blockchain For Dummies® IBM Limited Edition

Bitcoin

Solana is a decentralized, open blockchain that uses a combination of Proof-of-History and Proof-of-Stake to allow for low cost transactions. This combination also permits high speed transactions while maintaining a safe, decentralized ecosystem. 

Solana

https://loki.network/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LokiWhitepaperV3_1.pdf

Loki Whitepaper

Loki is a cryptocurrency based off of Monero, but has improved itself to be much more secure and efficient. By using service nodes, a node reward scheme, Loki can provide economics incentives for node operators. 

Loki Cryptocurrency

Binance Academy. (2021, November 4). What is BNB? Binance Academy. Retrieved November 18, 2021, from https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-is-bnb. 

Binance Whitepaper

BNB was originally issued as an ERC-20 token, running on the Ethereum network, with a total supply of 200 million coins. ERC-20 BNB tokens were later swapped with BEP-2 BNB on a 1:1 ratio. The BEP-2 BNB is the native coin of the Binance Chain 100 million BNBs were offered in the ICO, but the current total supply is lower due to periodic burning events, in which Binance destroyed BNB held in its treasury. 

Binance (BNB) Cryptocurrency 

Cardano is a public, open-source, proof-of-stake blockchain platform. It was founded in 2015 by Charles Hoskinson, one of the co-founders of Ethereum. 

Cardano (ADA)

Ether is the native cryptocurrency used fundamentally for payment transaction fees on the Ethereum network, then after the **Merge** it's also used for validate and propose blocks on Mainnet. The pricing mechanism for Ethereum's computing power is facilitated by the ether cryptocurrency. In order for transactions to be validated on the blockchain, users are required to pay ether, known as gas fees, which depends on computing power required for running a transaction


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