Bitcoincharts provides real time market overview for currently 38 exchanges. Use this page to follow news and updates regarding bitcoin create alerts follow analysis and opinion and get real time market data. Bitcoin is a type of digital crypto currency utilizing peer to peer transactions mining and other technological feats into a modern day asset.
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Bitcoin is an sha 256 pow coin with almost 21 000 000 total minable coins. The bitcoin blockchain was designed to enable quick and secure transactions while maintaining its users anonymity by using a public ledger to authenticate transactions. Bitcoin the world s first and largest crypto by market cap bitcoin is considered the first wide scale implementation of blockchain technology.
Unlike us dollars that you can hold in your hand or in your bank account there is no central authority or centralized payment system controlling bitcoin. Bitcoin is a completely decentralized digital cryptocurrency. Volume is defined as the number of digital coins that have been traded within the last 24 hours.
The market cap of a cryptocurrency is calculated by multiplying the number of coins or tokens in existence by its current price. Market capitalization often shortened to market cap is the approximate total value of a cryptocurrency typically shown in us dollars.
