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Revision as of 13:48, 21 July 2022
(BTC).
Bitcoin is a digital currency that is created, and effectively administered without recourse to a central bank or other central authority.
It was launched in 2009.
Bitcoin is sometimes abbreviated to 'BC', rather than BTC.
- Environmental costs & macroeconomic instability
- "From 7 September 2021 bitcoin [became] legal tender in El Salvador despite warnings from the IMF and the World Bank citing the potential impact on macroeconomic stability and bitcoin’s environmental costs."
- Association of Corporate Treasurers - Update on the Payments landscape - September 2021.
See also
- Altcoin
- Bit
- Blockchain
- Britcoin
- Cryptoassets
- Cryptocurrency
- Digital currency
- ekrona
- Environmental concerns
- Ethereum
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Layer 1 network
- Macroeconomics
- World Bank
