Bitcoin (BTC) is the first and largest cryptocurrency by market value. Launched in 2009 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, it is a peer-to-peer digital money that runs without a bank or central authority. Instead, a global network of computers keeps a shared, tamper-resistant record of every transaction.<\/p>\n
Transactions are grouped into blocks<\/em> and linked into a chain \u2014 the blockchain. New blocks are added roughly every ten minutes by miners, who compete to solve a computational puzzle. This process, called proof of work, secures the ledger: rewriting history would mean out-computing the entire honest network, which is prohibitively expensive.<\/p>\n Miners are rewarded with newly issued bitcoin plus transaction fees. That issuance is capped: there will only ever be 21 million BTC, and the reward halves roughly every four years in an event known as the halving.<\/p>\n Bitcoin has no cash flows, no company behind it and no promise of a return. Its value comes from a mix of properties people find useful: a fixed supply, censorship-resistance, portability and the fact that anyone can verify the rules for themselves. Supporters treat it as “digital gold” \u2014 a scarce asset held for the long term. Critics point to its volatility and energy use. Both views are worth understanding before forming your own.<\/p>\n On BitAdvent you can follow the live BTC price, 24-hour and 7-day moves, market capitalisation and trend charts on our Bitcoin page<\/a>, alongside the wider market overview<\/a>. Prices are drawn from live exchange data and refreshed continuously.<\/p>\n Bitcoin is volatile and high-risk. This article is educational and not financial advice \u2014 always do your own research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bitcoin explained in plain English \u2014 how the network works, what gives BTC value, and where to follow live prices and market data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What gives Bitcoin value<\/h2>\n
Where to track Bitcoin<\/h2>\n