What is Bitcoin? (A Simple Explanation For Beginners)

Ashton Frye
2 min readJan 18, 2021

You may have heard a lot about Bitcoin recently. Especially due to the fact that it’s currently soaring to new all time highs as far as price goes. No matter how promising Bitcoin sounds, it’s important to know a bit more about what Bitcoin really is before you start buying or trading it.

The Beginning Of Bitcoin

Bitcoin was initially launched in January of 2009, by a man who is now known as Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi Nakamoto is not the real name of the founder of Bitcoin, but rather a fictional…

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