What Is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is a form of digital currency, created and held electronically. No one person or institution controls it.

How Can I Buy Bitcoin?

You can buy bitcoins from regulated exchanges, or directly from other people selling them.

Why Use Bitcoin?

Because it's fast, it's cheap to use, it's private, and central governments can't take it away.

How to Store Your Bitcoin

Bitcoin wallets store the private keys that you need to access a bitcoin address and spend your funds. But which kind suits you best?

How to Sell Bitcoin

Whether you want to spend or hold bitcoin, at some point you'll probably want to sell some.

How Do Bitcoin Transactions Work?

Bitcoin transactions are sent from and to electronic bitcoin wallets, and are digitally signed for security.

How Bitcoin Mining Works

Bitcoins are discovered rather than printed. Computers around the world "mine" for coins by competing with each other.

How to Set Up a Bitcoin Miner

Decide on your hardware, calculate your profitability, and download the software.

Can Bitcoin Scale?

You want to spend bitcoin in your daily purchases. But what would that look like in a world where services like Visa and Mastercard still dominate?

What is Bitcoin's Lightning Network?

In 2016, developers Thaddeus Dryja and Joseph Poon proposed a protocol called “the lightning network” that would enable faster and cheaper transactions while not having to change the block size.

What are Bitcoin Mining Pools?

Find out what bitcoin mining pools are and how to join them. The same methods can be used for most cryptocurrencies.

What Can You Buy with Bitcoin?

At some point you’re going to want to spend your bitcoins. But where can you go to exchange it for goods and services?

Is Bitcoin Legal?

The legality of your bitcoin activities will depend on where you are and what you are doing with it.

What is the Difference Between Litecoin and Bitcoin?

Litecoin's goal is to be the 'silver' to bitcoin's 'gold', but how does it differ to the original cryptocurrency?