bitcoin
Americannoun
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Often Bitcoin the first widely established cryptocurrency, which uses state-of-the-art cryptography, can be issued in any fractional denomination, and has a decentralized distribution system.
Increasing numbers of stores and online businesses accept Bitcoin.
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a single unit of bitcoin, the first widely established cryptocurrency.
The value of a bitcoin has sometimes surpassed the value of an ounce of gold.
Usage
What's the difference between bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and digital currency? See digital currency ( def. ).
Etymology
Origin of bitcoin
First recorded in 2005–10; bit 3 ( def. ) + coin
Example Sentences
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Chun said the “biggest underappreciated risk in the market” right now is the “unprecedented convergence” of three long-running and winning themes for investors: AI, bitcoin and private credit.
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The third part is bitcoin, which has become “increasingly entangled” with AI and private credit.
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That’s as bitcoin mining firms in the past two years have repurposed big-scale data centers to host AI workloads, Leuthold said.
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To fund this, many miners have borrowed from private credit markets, with bitcoin their most liquid collateral.
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“The diversification benefit among AI, bitcoin and private credit is just not what people think at this point,” Chun said.
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