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Bitcoin is the first successful decentralized digital currency supporting peer-to-peer transactions that are collectively authenticated and stored by a globally distributed network of computers. An unknown person or group writing under the name Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008 and launched the open-source software in 2009.

More detailed information is available at the Bitcoin community wiki, and a list of other Bitcoin-related resources can be found in the can be found at this wiki's main article on Bitcoin.