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A Bitcoiner is a Bitcoin enthusiast who also typically owns some bitcoin (BTC) and is an active proponent and enthusiast of the Bitcoin network. Bitcoiners often believe that the Bitcoin..
Bitcoin Next Generation (Bitcoin-NG) is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) blockchain protocol proposed and built by the founder of Ava Labs, Emin Gün Sirer, and several other leading computer..
The Bitcoin network is a peer-to-peer (P2P), decentralized network that allows users to send units of value to each other without any intermediary or bank. The term "Bitcoin" with a capital..
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 44 improves on BIP 32's hierarchical-deterministic (HD) wallet structure by creating a specific hierarchy that allows for multiple accounts to be held..
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 39 allows for the generation of a human-readable 12–24 word recovery phrase for hierarchical-deterministic (HD) wallets. With the recovery phrase, users..
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 38 enabled wallet holders to encrypt Bitcoin private keys with a password to offer an extra layer of protection. An encrypted private key requires that..
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 32 established the standard for hierarchical-deterministic (HD) wallets, a technical improvement over earlier wallets that only had random key pairs..
A Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) is a code change introduced to improve the Bitcoin protocol. A BIP can be submitted by anyone to be evaluated and reviewed. Significant BIPs include BIP..
The first block mined on the Bitcoin blockchain, called the genesis block, was mined on January 3, 2009 by Satoshi Nakomoto, the creator of Bitcoin. Satoshi also encoded a message..
Bitcoin dominance (BTCD) is a metric that measures the market cap of bitcoin (BTC) — the world's largest cryptocurrency — in relation to the total market cap of all other cryptocurrencies..
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