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The live Bitcoin price today is $36,728.20 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $44,628,418,600 USD. Bitcoin is down 1.09% in the last 24 hours. The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #1, with a live market cap of $687,989,039,549 USD. It has a circulating supply of 18,731,900 BTC coins and a max. supply of 21,000,000 BTC coins.

If you would like to know where to buy Bitcoin , the top exchanges for trading in Bitcoin are currently Binance, Huobi Global, OKEx, ZG.com, and Bybit. You can find others listed on our crypto exchanges page.

What Is Bitcoin (BTC)?

Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency originally described in a 2008 whitepaper by a person, or group of people, using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. It was launched soon after, in January 2009.

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer online currency, meaning that all transactions happen directly between equal, independent network participants, without the need for any intermediary to permit or facilitate them. Bitcoin was created, according to Nakamoto’s own words, to allow “online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”

Some concepts for a similar type of a decentralized electronic currency precede BTC, but Bitcoin holds the distinction of being the first-ever cryptocurrency to come into actual use.

Who Are the Founders of Bitcoin?

Bitcoin’s original inventor is known under a pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto. As of 2020, the true identity of the person — or organization — that is behind the alias remains unknown.

On October 31, 2008, Nakamoto published Bitcoin’s whitepaper, which described in detail how a peer-to-peer, online currency could be implemented. They proposed to use a decentralized ledger of transactions packaged in batches (called “blocks”) and secured by cryptographic algorithms — the whole system would later be dubbed “blockchain.”

Just two months later, on January 3, 2009, Nakamoto mined the first block on the Bitcoin network, known as the genesis block, thus launching the world’s first cryptocurrency.

However, while Nakamoto was the original inventor of Bitcoin, as well as the author of its very first implementation, over the years a large number of people have contributed to improving the cryptocurrency’s software by patching vulnerabilities and adding new features.

Bitcoin’s source code repository on GitHub lists more than 750 contributors, with some of the key ones being Wladimir J. van der Laan, Marco Falke, Pieter Wuille, Gavin Andresen, Jonas Schnelli and others.

What Makes Bitcoin Unique?

Bitcoin’s most unique advantage comes from the fact that it was the very first cryptocurrency to appear on the market.

It has managed to create a global community and give birth to an entirely new industry of millions of enthusiasts who create, invest in, trade and use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in their everyday lives. The emergence of the first cryptocurrency has created a conceptual and technological basis that subsequently inspired the development of thousands of competing projects.

The entire cryptocurrency market — now worth more than $300 billion — is based on the idea realized by Bitcoin: money that can be sent and received by anyone, anywhere in the world without reliance on trusted intermediaries, such as banks and financial services companies.

Thanks to its pioneering nature, BTC remains at the top of this energetic market after over a decade of existence. Even after Bitcoin has lost its undisputed dominance, it remains the largest cryptocurrency, with a market capitalization that fluctuated between $100-$200 billion in 2020, owing in large part to the ubiquitousness of platforms that provide use-cases for BTC: wallets, exchanges, payment services, online games and more.

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How Much Bitcoin Is in Circulation?

Bitcoin’s total supply is limited by its software and will never exceed 21,000,000 coins. New coins are created during the process known as “mining”: as transactions are relayed across the network, they get picked up by miners and packaged into blocks, which are in turn protected by complex cryptographic calculations.

As compensation for spending their computational resources, the miners receive rewards for every block that they successfully add to the blockchain. At the moment of Bitcoin’s launch, the reward was 50 bitcoins per block: this number gets halved with every 210,000 new blocks mined — which takes the network roughly four years. As of 2020, the block reward has been halved three times and comprises 6.25 bitcoins.

Bitcoin has not been premined, meaning that no coins have been mined and/or distributed between the founders before it became available to the public. However, during the first few years of BTC’s existence, the competition between miners was relatively low, allowing the earliest network participants to accumulate significant amounts of coins via regular mining: Satoshi Nakamoto alone is believed to own over a million Bitcoin.

Mining Bitcoins can be very profitable for miners, depending on the current hash rate and the price of Bitcoin. While the process of mining Bitcoins is complex, we discuss how long it takes to mine one Bitcoin on CMC Alexandria — as we wrote above, mining Bitcoin is best understood as how long it takes to mine one block, as opposed to one Bitcoin.

How Is the Bitcoin Network Secured?

Bitcoin is secured with the SHA-256 algorithm, which belongs to the SHA-2 family of hashing algorithms, which is also used by its fork Bitcoin Cash (BCH), as well as several other cryptocurrencies.

What Is Bitcoin’s Role as a Store of Value?

Bitcoin is the first decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency. One of its most important functions is that it is used as a decentralized store of value. In other words, it provides for ownership rights as a physical asset or as a unit of account. However, the latter store-of-value function has been debated. Many crypto enthusiasts and economists believe that high-scale adoption of the top currency will lead us to a new modern financial world where transaction amounts will be denominated in smaller units.

The top crypto is considered a store of value, like gold, for many — rather than a currency. This idea of the first cryptocurrency as a store of value, instead of a payment method, means that many people buy the crypto and hold onto it long-term (or HODL) rather than spending it on items like you would typically spend a dollar — treating it as digital gold.

Crypto Wallets

The most popular wallets for cryptocurrency include both hot and cold wallets. Cryptocurrency wallets vary from hot wallets and cold wallets. Hot wallets are able to be connected to the web, while cold wallets are used for keeping large amounts of coins outside of the internet.

Some of the top crypto cold wallets are Trezor, Ledger and CoolBitX. Some of the top crypto hot wallets include Exodus, Electrum and Mycelium.

How Is Bitcoin’s Technology Upgraded?

A hard fork is a radical change to the protocol that makes previously invalid blocks/transactions valid, and therefore requires all users to upgrade. For example, if users A and B are disagreeing on whether an incoming transaction is valid, a hard fork could make the transaction valid to users A and B, but not to user C.

A hard fork is a protocol upgrade that is not backward compatible. This means every node (computer connected to the Bitcoin network using a client that performs the task of validating and relaying transactions) needs to upgrade before the new blockchain with the hard fork activates and rejects any blocks or transactions from the old blockchain. The old blockchain will continue to exist and will continue to accept transactions, although it may be incompatible with other newer Bitcoin clients.

A soft fork is a change to the Bitcoin protocol wherein only previously valid blocks/transactions are made invalid. Since old nodes will recognise the new blocks as valid, a soft fork is backward-compatible. This kind of fork requires only a majority of the miners upgrading to enforce the new rules.

Some examples of prominent cryptocurrencies that have undergone hard forks are the following: Bitcoin’s hard fork that resulted in Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum’s hard fork that resulted in Ethereum Classic.

https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/bitcoin-vs-bitcoin-cash-vs-bitcoin-svBitcoin Cash has been hard forked since its original forking, with the creation of Bitcoin SV.

What Is the Lightning Network?

The Lightning Network is an off-chain, layered payment protocol that operates bidirectional payment channels which allows instantaneous transfer with instant reconciliation. It enables private, high volume and trustless transactions between any two parties. The Lightning Network scales transaction capacity without incurring the costs associated with transactions and interventions on the underlying blockchain.

How Much Is Bitcoin?

The current valuation of Bitcoin is constantly moving, all day every day. It is a truly global asset. From a start of under one cent per coin, BTC has risen in price by thousands of percent to the numbers you see above. The prices of all cryptocurrencies are quite volatile, meaning that anyone’s understanding of how much is Bitcoin will change by the minute. However, there are times when different countries and exchanges show different prices and understanding how much is Bitcoin will be a function of a person’s location.

Where Can You Buy Bitcoin (BTC)?

Bitcoin is, in many regards, almost synonymous with cryptocurrency, which means that you can buy Bitcoin on virtually every crypto exchange — both for fiat money and other cryptocurrencies. Some of the main markets where BTC trading is available are:

If you are new to crypto, use CoinMarketCap’s own easy guide to buying Bitcoin.

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О CoinMarketCap

CoinMarketCap — это самый популярный в мире веб-сайт для отслеживания цен на криптоактивы в условиях стремительного роста индустрии криптовалюты. Миссия CoinMarketCap — сделать криптовалюту доступной и эффективной во всем мире за счет предоставления пользователям беспристрастной, качественной и точной информации, позволяющей сделать собственные взвешенные и обоснованные выводы.

Основанная Брендоном Чезом (Brandon Chez) в мае 2013 года, платформа CoinMarketCap быстро превратилась в самый надежный источник для сравнения тысяч криптоактивов для пользователей, организаций и СМИ. Данные CoinMarketCap часто цитируют CNBC, Bloomberg и другие крупные новостные агентства. (Даже правительство США использует данные CoinMarketCap для исследований и отчетов!)

В апреле 2020 года CoinMarketCap была приобретена Binance Capital Mgmt. Binance — глобальная блокчейн-компания, которая основала крупнейшую в мире по объему торгов и количеству пользователей биржу цифровых активов и которая следует миссии сделать криптовалюту доступной и системно важной для людей во всем мире.

За счет приобретения компанией Binance CoinMarketCap планирует задействовать обширные ресурсы своей материнской компании с целью получения более подробных данных о проектах, уменьшения информационной асимметрии в криптоиндустрии и предоставления более качественных данных сотням миллионов пользователей.

CoinMarketCap твердо соблюдает принципы точности, своевременности и беспристрастности информации. С момента приобретения компании Binance в начале 2020 года, CoinMarketCap продолжает работать независимо от своей материнской компании. Прочтите нашу политику раскрытия информации для дополнительной информации.

May 2013	CoinMarketCap first launches
May 2016	CoinMarketCap introduces its first public API
May 2018	CoinMarketCap launches its first iOS app
August 2018	CoinMarketCap launches its professional API
Dec 2018	CoinMarketCap ends the year with 3.6 billion page views
March 2019	CMC200 & CMC200EX indices are listed on Nasdaq, Bloomberg and Refinitiv
April 2019	CoinMarketCap launches its first Android app
May 2019	CoinMarketCap forms the DATA Alliance to promote data transparency and accountability in the crypto space
June 2019	CoinMarketCap acquires Hashtag Capital
November 2019	The Capital, CoinMarketCap’s first-ever conference is launched
November 2019	CoinMarketCap introduces the Liquidity Metric
April 2020	Binance acquires CoinMarketCap
May/June 2020	CoinMarketCap to upgrade Liquidity Score with new details explained in the new methodology

Чтобы понять, каким образом криптопроекты и биржи размещаются в листинге CoinMarketCap, ознакомьтесь с нашей политикой листинга и c разделом часто задаваемые вопросы.

CoinMarketCap ежегодно охватывает сотни миллионов пользователей через свои каналы отслеживания цен: веб-сайт, мобильное приложение, новостная рассылка, блог, социальные сети (Twitter, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram), а также благодаря своей ежегодной конференции.

Если вы хотите размещать рекламу на CoinMarketCap или заинтересованы в наших продуктах и предложениях для компаний, напишите нам на Advertising@coinmarketcap.com. Если вы заинтересованы в редакционном сотрудничестве в рамках нашего блога, напишите нам на social@coinmarketcap.com.

Чтобы узнать о вакансиях в CoinMarketCap, посетите нашу страницу вакансий.

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В апреле 2020 года CoinMarketCap была приобретена Binance Capital Mgmt. Между CoinMarketCap и Binance.com нет отношений собственности.

Binance — глобальная блокчейн-компания, которая основала крупнейшую в мире по объему торгов и количеству пользователей биржу цифровых активов и которая выполняет большую миссию по ускорению глобального внедрения криптовалют с помощью более 25 продуктов, проектов и инициатив. Binance.com известна тем, что предлагает широкий спектр вариантов торговли криптоактивами и фиатные опции для многих валют по всему миру в рамках своей миссии по расширению свободы денег.

После этого приобретения CoinMarketCap продолжит работу как независимая компания и по прежнему будет предоставлять самые точные, своевременные и качественные данные о криптовалютах. CoinMarketCap строго следует и обеспечивает соблюдение своих независимых критериев листинга, методов расчета циркулирующего предложения и оценки ликвидности при ранжировании криптовалютных активов.

Хотя криптовалютная биржа Binance и ее собственный токен BNB размещены в листинге CoinMarketCap, CoinMarketCap и Binance являются отдельными организациями, которые соблюдают строгую политику независимости друг от друга: Binance не имеет отношения к рейтингам CoinMarketCap, а CoinMarketCap не влияет на деятельность Binance.

Ни один сотрудник Binance, включая CZ, не контролирует алгоритмы ранжирования CoinMarketCap или процессы листинга. Криптоактивы, которые хотят быть внесены в листинг CoinMarketCap, должны следовать руководству нашей политики листинга и будут объективно и независимо оценены в соответствии со своими критериям.

Официальные критерии рейтинга CoinMarketCap разработаны с целью исключить любую возможность преференциального отношения в целом, даже для биржи Binance или криптоактивов BNB. Это будет соблюдаться, несмотря на любой положительный или отрицательный финансовый эффект, который такое соблюдение политики может иметь для материнской компании.

CoinMarketCap и ее сотрудники не занимают публичных должностей, относящихся к какому-либо криптовалютному активу, и не поддерживают публично какие-либо криптоактивы или блокчейн проекты. Все криптоактивы и/ или проекты, поддерживаемые CZ и/ или Binance не связаны с брендом и деятельностью CoinMarketCap.

CoinMarketCap продолжит независимо предоставлять широкой общественности наиболее точные данные о криптовалютах . Мы уверены, что это приобретение компании укрепит наше общее видение продвижения идеи криптореволюции и обеспечения прозрачности криптоиндустрии.

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