Bitcoin and the Blockchain

In its sharpest form, Bitcoin is mostly attributed to programmer Vitalik Buterin. The computer's data aren't kept on any one particular machine but spread out among lots of nodes. Different people run the database on their own separate machines. It's secure and final because of how transactions are encoded in the blocks.

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