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2. History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   On 8 February 2021 Tesla's announcement of a bitcoin purchase of US$1.5 billion and the plan to start accepting bitcoin as payment for vehicles, pushed the bitcoin price to $44,141. [153] On 18 February 2021, Elon Musk stated that "owning bitcoin was only a little better than holding conventional cash, but that the slight difference made it a ...

3. Bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   Bitcoin wallets were the first cryptocurrency wallets, enabling users to store the information necessary to transact bitcoins. [85][8]: ch. 1, glossary The first wallet program, simply named Bitcoin, and sometimes referred to as the Satoshi client, was released in 2009 by Nakamoto as open-source software. [7]

4. Cryptocurrency - Wikipedia

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   In 2018, Bitcoin's design caused a 1.4% welfare loss compared to an efficient cash system, while a cash system with 2% money growth has a minor 0.003% welfare cost. The main source for this inefficiency is the large mining cost, which is estimated to be US$360 million per year.

5. List of cryptocurrencies - Wikipedia

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   A bitcoin -based currency featuring instant transactions, decentralized governance and budgeting, and private transactions. China based cryptocurrency, formerly ANT Shares and ANT Coins. The names were changed in 2017 to NEO and GAS. The underlying software is derived from that of another cryptocurrency, ZetaCoin.

6. List of currencies - Wikipedia

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   Congolese franc – Democratic Republic of the Congo (replaced in 1967, re-established in 1998) Djiboutian franc – Djibouti. French franc – France. French Camerounian franc – French Cameroun. French Equatorial African franc – French Equatorial Africa. French Guianan franc – French Guiana.

7. El Salvador became the first country to accept Bitcoin as ...

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   In 2021, El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, mandating that businesses accept the leading cryptocurrency as a form of payment and rolling out a digital wallet ...

8. Legality of cryptocurrency by country or territory - Wikipedia

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   They underlined that virtual currencies (including bitcoin): (1) are not issued or guaranteed by the central bank, (2) are not money, i.e. they are neither legal tender nor currency, (3) can not be used to pay tax liabilities, (4) do not meet the criterion of universal acceptability in shopping and service points, (5) are not electronic money ...

9. Digital currency - Wikipedia

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   Digital currency. Digital currency (digital money, electronic money or electronic currency) is any currency, money, or money-like asset that is primarily managed, stored or exchanged on digital computer systems, especially over the internet. Types of digital currencies include cryptocurrency, virtual currency and central bank digital currency.