Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator, which 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 single transaction. Public distributed ledger called blockchain. The cryptocurrency was invented in 2008
by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The use of the currency began in 2009 when its implementation was
released as open-source software.Bitcoins are created as a reward for a process known as mining. They can be exchanged for other
currencies,products and services. Bitcoin has been criticized for its use in illegal transactions, the large amount of electricity
(and thus carbon footprint) used by mining, price volatility, and theft from exchanges. Some investors and economists have at times
portrayed it as a speculative bubble. Others have used it as an investment, although several regulatory agencies have issued investor alerts
regarding bitcoin. Some local and national governments are officially using bitcoin in some capacity, with two countries, El Salvador and the Central
African Republic, adopting it as legal tender. The term bitcoin was defined in a white paper published on 31 October 2008. It is a
combination of the words bit and coin. No similar convention exists for bitcoin capitalization; Some sources use bitcoin, capitalized,