Bitcoin basics

Let’s look at the previous attempts to create digital currencies that made Bitcoin possible.

While your local currency – whether it’s dollars, pounds or something else – are issued by central banks, new Bitcoins are issued to Bitcoin miners in return for certain tasks they carry out to keep it running. These tasks fall…

Each Bitcoin is created through a process called mining and the people that mine cryptocurrencies are called miners. These miners use powerful, specialised computers to validate transactions on the Bitcoin network, also known as the Bitcoin blockchain. In return for…

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and the Bitcoin blockchain is the ledger, or the spreadsheet, on which all the transactions that have ever been made with Bitcoin are recorded.

There are currently around 18.9 million Bitcoin in circulation, with a maximum supply of 21 million. The remaining couple of million Bitcoin are expected to be fully mined by 2140. You may be wondering why it will take over 100…

Bitcoin’s price is linked directly to supply and demand, and events that impact the economy on a national and global level impact people’s need to buy or own (hodl) the cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin and Uniswap run on different infrastructures and have different intended purposes. Bitcoin is a digital currency used for electronic transfers, and Uniswap is primarily designed for its underlying decentralised exchange.

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It’s a tricky business trying to bundle together the factors that determine the value of something. Investors often look to the inherent value, or the underlying value in a company when deciding which stock to buy, while commodities such as…

Bitcoin’s price is notoriously volatile. Over the years, we’ve witnessed huge swings (both up and down) in the span of days, hours and even minutes. But what causes this?

Where did Bitcoin come from? Who created it and why? What is its purpose? Could one person have really created it? These are common questions within the cryptocurrency community.

Ethereum and Bitcoin are both cryptocurrencies but they are fundamentally different in their use cases.