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- What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a system for sending digital money without a bank handling each payment. BTC is the short label for its money. You can send a fraction of one bitcoin.
- What is Bitcoin in one minute?
Bitcoin is digital money you can send without a bank handling the payment. A public record tracks who can spend it, and computers check that payments follow the rules.
- How does Bitcoin work in 10 minutes?
Bitcoin lets people send digital money without a bank approving each transfer. To understand it, follow the payment record, the rules and the keys that approve spending.
- Who created Bitcoin?
Bitcoin was introduced under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. That name appears on the original paper; it does not establish a verified real-world identity.
- Who controls Bitcoin?
No central operator runs Bitcoin accounts or approves every payment. Different participants propose software, propose blocks and check whether the rules have been followed.
- What is a blockchain?
A blockchain is a record arranged in linked groups called blocks. Bitcoin uses it to keep a shared history of confirmed payments that many computers can check.
- What is mining in simple words?
Mining is the computing work used to propose new blocks for Bitcoin. Miners spend energy doing that work, and other computers check whether a proposed block follows the rules.
- What is the Bitcoin halving?
The halving is a rule that cuts the new bitcoin allowed in a block in half. It changes the creation of new bitcoin, not the amount already in your wallet.
- What if all bitcoin is mined?
Under Bitcoin's current rules, new bitcoin creation eventually ends. Payments can still be recorded, with transaction fees providing payment to miners instead of a new-coin subsidy.
- Is Bitcoin legal in Canada?
Canada permits crypto-asset activity subject to applicable laws, but Bitcoin is not legal tender. Tax rules and rules for businesses offering services still matter.
- Is Bitcoin anonymous?
Bitcoin is not automatically anonymous. The payment history is public, and an address can become connected to a person even though the record does not simply list everyone by name.
- Does Bitcoin need the internet?
To send a payment to the network or see current payment information, your wallet needs a way to communicate with it. Keeping keys offline is different from broadcasting a payment.
- Is a physical bitcoin real bitcoin?
Bitcoin itself is digital money recorded on the network. A metal coin, picture or printed token is a physical object; it is not by itself proof that you control any bitcoin.
- Is Bitcoin the same as crypto?
No. Crypto is a broad label for digital assets and related systems. Bitcoin is a particular system within that category, with its own record and rules.
Where could you start?
If a friend mentions bitcoin over lunch, start with the one-minute answer. Use the longer primer when you want the ideas joined together.