Bitcoin P2P Virtual Currency

P2P Virtual Currency

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new money or tracks transactions. These tasks are managed collectively by the network.

Resources

• What is Bitcoin?
• FAQ
• Wiki / Help
• Forum
• Sites That Accept Bitcoin
• Merchant Howto
• Bitcoin Charts / Markets

Project

• Community-driven open source, released under the MIT license
• Based on Satoshi Nakamoto's paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
• Project Developers
  • Satoshi Nakamoto
  • Gavin Andresen - (PGP)
  • Martti Malmi - (PGP)
  • Amir Taaki - (PGP)
  • Pieter Wuille
  • Nils Schneider - nils.schneider@gmail.com
  • Jeff Garzik - jgarzik@exmulti.com
• Press mailing list for presentation and interview requests:

Download

• Bitcoin 0.3.21
• Windows (exe) 5.8MB
• Windows (zip) 6.9MB
• Linux 9.8MB
• Mac OS X 7.7MB
• Latest source code: GitHub

Community

• Join the Bitcoin Forum
• Join the project's lively IRC channels on the FreeNodenetwork or use the FreeNode Web IRC.
  • #bitcoin (General Bitcoin-related)
  • #bitcoin-dev (Development and technical)
  • #bitcoin-otc (Over The Counter exchange)
  • #bitcoin-market (Live quotes from markets)
  • #bitcoin-mining (GPU mining related)
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