Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, is a decentralized form of digital cash that eliminates the need for traditional intermediaries like banks and governments to make financial transactions.The value of Bitcoin broke all records in December, 2020.The spot price to buy a bitcoin \u2014 the world\u2019s first and most popular digital currency \u2014 eclipsed $23,000 after trading as low as $3,237 in December 2018. As prices rise, so does public interest in buying Bitcoin. The first thing to know: All investments carry risk, but experimental cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are among the riskiest. Never invest more than you can afford to lose.Bitcoin, launched in 2009, was the first of a new kind of asset called cryptocurrency, a decentralized form of digital cash that eliminates the need for traditional intermediaries like banks and governments to make financial transactions.Instead, Bitcoin is powered through a combination of peer-to-peer technology \u2014 a network of individuals, much like the volunteer editors who create Wikipedia \u2014 and software-driven cryptography, the science of passing secret information that can only be read by the sender and receiver. This creates a currency backed by code rather than items of physical value, like gold or silver, or by trust in central authorities like the U.S. dollar or Japanese yen.\u201cWhat is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party,\u201d wrote Satoshi Nakamoto \u2014 the pseudonym of the mysterious Bitcoin creator, who remains unknown \u2014 in a white paper introducing the open-source technology.Each bitcoin (trading symbol \u201cBTC,\u201d though \u201cXBT\u201d is also used) is a computer file stored in a digital wallet on a computer or smartphone. To understand how the cryptocurrency works, it helps to understand these terms and a little\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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