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4. Bitcoin

Anders Lisdorf1  
(1)
Lisdorf Consulting, København SV, Denmark
 

Now we can start to piece together how Bitcoin works. The previous chapters allow us to understand better the diverse technologies and experiments with virtual currencies that made it possible for Bitcoin to appear at this particular time. Let us start with a simple outline of some key components of Bitcoin before we dive into the technical details that made them possible.

To put it simply, Bitcoin is a system that provides a virtual currency called bitcoin that users can exchange without any central intermediary ...

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