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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="/index.html#coins">(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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            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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          <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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