What is Bitcoin (BTC)?

Bitcoin (BTC) was first introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. Its open-source software, based on Nakamoto’s ideas, runs on a P2P network. Bitcoin is a P2P digital currency; peer-to-peer transfer means a decentralized payment system. More details are below.

Bitcoin (BTC) was introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. Its open-source software runs on a P2P network. Bitcoin is a P2P digital currency; peer-to-peer transfer means a decentralized payment system.

• Official Bitcoin website: https://bitcoin.org/zh_CN/
• Bitcoin explorer: https://btc.com
• Bitcoin mining guide

• Total supply: 21,000,000
• Block time: ~10 minutes on average
• Block reward interval: 210,000 blocks
• Difficulty adjustment: every 2,016 blocks
• Block reward: 6.25 BTC + transaction fees

Mining hardware

Miners using the SHA-256 algorithm

Wallet

Exchanges

• Binance: https://www.binance.com/en/trade/ETH_BTC
• Huobi.pro: https://www.huobi.com/
• Okex:https://www.okex.com/