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Revision as of 07:27, 18 November 2025

Bitcoin
Commonly used logo of bitcoin
Denominations
Plural Bitcoins
Symbol ₿ (Unicode: U+20BF ₿ BITCOIN SIGN)
Code BTC
Precision 10⁻⁸
Subunits
Millibitcoin (mBTC)
1/1000
Bit (μBTC)
1/100000
Satoshi (sat)
1/10000000
Millisatoshi (msat)
1/100000000000
Development
Original author Satoshi Nakamoto
White paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Implementation Bitcoin Core
Initial release 0.1.0 / 9 January 2009 (16 years ago)
Latest release 30.0.0 / 11 October 2025 (34 days ago)
Code repository GitHub
Development status Active
Written in C++
Source model Free and Open Source Software
License MIT Licence
Ledger
Ledger start 3 January 2009 (16 years ago)
Timestamping scheme Proof of work (partial hash inversion)
Hash function SHA-256 (two rounds)
Issuance Decentralized (block reward), Initially ₿50 per block, halved every 210,000 blocks
Block reward ₿3.125 (as of 2025)
Block time 10 minutes
Circulating supply ₿19,934,271 (as of 14 October 2025)
Supply limit ₿21,000,000
Valuation
Exchange rate Floating
Website bitcoin.org