Virtual currency bitcoin

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Money is a phenomenon used for goods and services. Virtual currency, also known as virtual money, is a type of unregulated, digital money, which is issued and usually controlled by its developers, and used and accepted among the members of a specific virtual community. Most Popular Digital Currency is Bitcoin (BTC). BTC is a virtual currency created by Satoshi Nakamoto at the end of 2008. Bitcoin is using blockchain technology. Blockchain is the world's leading software platform for digital assets. Blockchain is a digitized, decentralized, transparency public ledger of all cryptocurrency transactions. Constantly growing as ‘completed’ blocks (the most recent transactions) are recorded and added to it in chronological order, it allows market participants to keep track of digital currency transactions without central recordkeeping. Each node (a computer connected to the network) gets a copy of the blockchain, which is downloaded automatically. Bitcoin about another important issue, in the future, blockchain technology will be used mainly health, finance and e-selection in many areas.

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Durmuş, S., & Polat, M. Ş. (2018). Virtual currency bitcoin. Kafkas Universitesi Veteriner Fakultesi Dergisi, 9(18), 659–673. https://doi.org/10.9775/kauiibfd.2018.031

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