#BTC Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.
Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a publicly distributed ledger called a blockchain. Bitcoin was invented in 2008 by an unknown entity using the name Satoshi Nakamoto and released as open-source software in 2009.
