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Store physically and digitally
Bitcoin wallets come in all shapes and sizes. Store Bitcoin on your favorite electronic device such as a desktop or mobile phone, or use a traditional wallet such as a debit card variation or paper wallet.
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Bitcoin transactions are public!
Bitcoin transactions are displayed and easily accessible through the block chain, a public ledger of Bitcoin movements and wallet data.
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Peer to peer
Perform international transfers, store funds, and manage multiple accounts, traditionally requiring a third party service or financial institution. Peer to peer transactions ensure the ability to send currency worldwide, without typical barriers such as transactions and service fees, banking hours, overdraft charges, limited access, deposit limits, and other common inconveniences.
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Miners put currency into circulation, and are essential to transactions
Currency is released into the market to upgraded computers known as “miners”. Bitcoin miners solve mathematical problems, earning rewards of new currency as blocks are discovered. Miners are essential to the use of Bitcoin, not only do they discover new currency in circulation, they also provide the cryptographic verification’s necessary to complete each transaction.
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Predetermined
The algorithm has been predetermined, publicly understood, and consensual controlled. You can see some of the important and up to date Bitcoin mining and exchange statistics here.