Low fee scaling - Most wallets calculate on chain fees automatically but you can view fee estimates and mempool activity if you want to set your fee manually.Designed Money - Bitcoin was created to fit all the fundamental properties of money better than gold or fiat.Peer-to-peer - No intermediaries taking a cut, no need for trusted third parties.Transactions are irreversible by normal users after one confirmation and irreversible by anyone (including miners) after 6 confirmations. Nearly instant - From a few seconds on the Lightning Network to a few minutes on-chain depending on need for confirmations.Divisible - Each bitcoin can be ((unit)), which means you don't have to worry about buying an entire bitcoin.Programmable - Individual units of bitcoin can be programmed to transfer based on certain criteria being met.Secure - Blocks and transactions are cryptographically secured (using hashes and signatures) and can’t be brute forced or confiscated with proper key management such as hardware wallets.Pseudonymous - No need to expose personal information when purchasing with cash or transacting.Trustless - Bitcoin solved the Byzantine's Generals Problem which means nobody needs to trust anybody for it to work.Borderless - No country can stop it from going in/out, even in areas currently unserved by traditional banking as the ledger is globally distributed.Push system - There are no chargebacks in Bitcoin because only the person who owns the address where the bitcoin resides has the authority to move them.Censorship resistant - No one can prevent you from interacting with the Bitcoin network and no one can censor, alter or block transactions that they disagree with, see Operation Chokepoint.You can even run a node on a Raspberry Pi. Decentralized - Bitcoin is globally distributed across thousands of nodes with no single point of failure and as such can't be shut down similar to how Bittorrent works.Accountable - The public ledger is transparent, all transactions are seen by everyone.You can read and contribute to the source code yourself. Open source - Bitcoin code is fully auditable.The halving countdown tells you approximately how much time until the next block reward halving. Once they are all issued Bitcoin will be truly deflationary. Limited Supply - There will only ever be a maximum of 21,000,000 bitcoins created and they are issued in a predictable fashion per the inflation schedule.You can also see the number of times Bitcoin was declared dead by the media (LOL) and what you could have earned if you didn't listen to them! XD Key properties of Bitcoin MicroStrategy's Bitcoin for Corporations is an excellent open source series on corporate legal and financial Bitcoin integration. Some Bitcoin statistics can be found here, here, here and here. If you are technically or academically inclined check out developer resources and peer-reviewed research papers, course lectures from both MIT and Princeton as well as future protocol improvements and scaling resources. Some excellent writing on Bitcoin's value proposition and future can be found at the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. ![]() Some other great resources include Michael Saylor's and "Bitcoin for Everybody"' course, Jameson Lopp's resource page, Gigi's resource page, and James D'Angelo's Bitcoin 101 Blackboard series.
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