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        <h1>A human-centered wallet for Bitcoin</h1>
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          Stack Wallet supports Bitcoin (BTC) as well as many other
          cryptocurrencies <a href="/coins.html">(full list here)</a> Use Stack
          Wallet to send, receive, exchange, and store Bitcoin, with the added
          confidence that every key generated for Bitcoin stays on your device,
          and you retain complete control. Download Stack Wallet below!
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        <h3>What is <span>bitcoin</span></h3>
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          Bitcoin was the first decentralized digital currency based on
          blockchain technology. It was created in 2008 by an anonymous
          programmer known as Satoshi Nakamoto, who released the white paper in
          a cryptography mailing list and later open sourced the software that
          implements the protocol.
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        <h3>Some key <span>terms</span></h3>
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          <span>Soft work</span> <br />
          Change to the Bitcoin protocol that makes old blocks invalid which
          were valid in the past. Bitcoin Segwit transactions feature was
          implemented as a soft fork to the network.
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          <span>Hard work</span> <br />
          Change to the Bitcoin protocol that makes previously invalid blocks or
          transactions valid. The BerkeleyDB bug activated an accidental hard
          fork to the Bitcoin network in 2013.
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          How does Bitcoin work & <span>where can I get a bitcoin wallet</span>?
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          Bitcoin software runs on a number of distributed devices ranging from
          smartphones as mobile wallets, PCs as desktop wallets, to ASICs for
          mining. Transactions are relayed between nodes in a peer-to-peer
          fashion. In a few seconds a given block will be propagated to all
          other nodes on the network. While insuring that all nodes reach
          consensus on which are the valid blocks. The process of supplying new
          bitcoin to the system is done via the process of mining. The mining
          software runs on specialized hardware and it tries to compute the hash
          of assembled transactions and a number called the nonce. The software
          targets a difficulty index automatically adjusted by the network. The
          first miner to find the correct nonce wins the mining reward and can
          relay the mined block to other peers on the network.
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        <h3>What are <span>the features of Bitcoin</span>?</h3>
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          <span>Store of Value</span> <br />
          Bitcoin, unlike other cryptocurrencies is considered as a store of
          value and could arguably become the next global reserve currency.
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          <span>Gateway to the Digital Currency World</span> <br />
          Bitcoin is considered as the gateway to the cryptocurrency world,
          based on its status as the first successful digital currency
          experiment.
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          <span>Bitcoin Script Language</span> <br />
          An assembly like language used to build complex types of transactions
          and advanced contracts to an extent. Complex transactions like
          Multi-Sig are possible because of advanced Bitcoin scripting.
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