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*[http://www.chicagofed.org/digital_assets/publications/chicago_fed_letter/2013/cfldecember2013_317.pdf?goback=%2Egde_1799642_member_5805378057078321153#%21 Bitcoin: a primer, Chicago Fed Dec 2013] | *[http://www.chicagofed.org/digital_assets/publications/chicago_fed_letter/2013/cfldecember2013_317.pdf?goback=%2Egde_1799642_member_5805378057078321153#%21 Bitcoin: a primer, Chicago Fed Dec 2013] | ||
* [https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/digital-currencies Bank of England - Digital currencies] | * [https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/digital-currencies Bank of England - Digital currencies] | ||
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Revision as of 19:29, 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
- Blockchain Governance Initiative Network (BGIN)
- Centralised finance
- Coin
- Crypto-assets
- Cryptocurrency
- Daisy chain
- Data
- Database
- Decentralised finance (DeFi)
- Digital asset
- Digital currency
- Distributed ledger
- ekrona
- Ether
- Ethereum
- Fintech
- Layer 1 network
- Layer 2 network
- Non-fungible token
- Payments and payment systems
- Platform
- Ripple payment protocol
- Smart contract
- Stablecoin
- SWIFT gpi
- Token
- TradFi
