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.

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.

Can Bitcoin Scale?

Last updated: 22 February, 2018 A few years after Satoshi Nakamoto unleashed his bitcoin paper on the world, the cryptocurrency’s users began to notice a potential problem: bitcoin wasn’t very liquid. For a system that many claimed could replace fiat payments, this was a big barrier. While Visa handles around 24,000 transactions a second, bitcoin could […]

What is Bitcoin's Lightning Network?

Last updated: 21 March, 2018 Hailed as one of the most potent solutions to cryptocurrency scaling currently under development, the lightning network effectively creates a layer on top of bitcoin, enabling fast and cheap transactions which can net settle to the bitcoin blockchain. Proposed by Thaddeus Dryja and Joseph Poon in a 2015 white paper, […]

What are Bitcoin Mining Pools?

Last updated 10th March 2014 One of the first questions that anyone interested in mining cryptocurrencies faces is whether to mine solo or join a ‘pool’. There are a multitude of reasons both for and against mining pools. However, if the hash rate distribution across the bitcoin network is anything to go by (and it is) then […]

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?