【BTC / Bitcoin】

Market capitalization: 88.04 trillion yen

A Peer to Peer payment network and cryptographic asset based on an open source protocol using public transaction logs.

Unlike interbank remittances and credit cards, there is no intermediary, so remittances and payments can be made quickly and with very low fees.

The unit is BTC (minimum unit is 0.00000001 BTC = 1 Satoshi).

The issuance limit is set at about 21 million units, so it is attracting attention as an alternative asset to gold.

The most widely used virtual currency in the world.

All transactions are recorded in the blockchain at regular intervals. All transaction records are added to the transaction ledger (blockchain) at regular intervals. Nonce (Number Used Once, like a one-time password) is used as a method to ensure consistency. Finding this nance is the main task of mining. The first person to find the nance will be rewarded with bitcoins.
The main feature of Bitcoin is that there is no "central organization" that manages the currency. Miners around the world ensure the soundness of Bitcoin.

PoW (Proof of Work) prevents data tampering and double payments.

Public key cryptography prevents data from being forged.

Available on all exchanges in Japan.

Official website : http://www.bitcoin.org
Twitter : https://twitter.com/bitcoincoreorg
Github : https://github.com/bitcoin/