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Why was bitcoin created?

Why was Bitcoin created? The concept of Bitcoin first came into creation in 2008, as a response to the Great Financial Crisis and the financial world’s reliance on banks as intermediaries of all financial transactions.

When was the first bitcoin transaction?

The first reported real-world financial transaction involving Bitcoin took place on May 22, 2010, when a Florida man negotiated to pay 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas priced at about $25. That transaction valued the price of one Bitcoin at roughly a fourth of a cent. To this day, the Bitcoin community celebrates Pizza Day on May 22.

How many Bitcoins are there in the world?

Currently, there are just over 18,800 000 Bitcoins in existence. Bitcoins are created by a process known as “Bitcoin mining” and distributed in the form of Bitcoin block rewards. The bitcoin mining process sees every transaction on the Bitcoin network checked and verified by the distributed network.

How does the bitcoin network work?

The Bitcoin network verifies the transactions; all the transactions are recorded in a ledger where other users can see the balance and all the transactions of any address. This helps keep Bitcoin operations transparent.

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