Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that is completely decentralized, without the need for a central server or trusted parties. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with each other, with the help of a P2P network to check for double-spending.
| Tags | Financial Cryptography Internet P2P |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT |
| Operating Systems | Linux Windows Mac OS X |
| Implementation | C++ Boost OpenSSL Berkeley DB Qt |
| Translations | French German Italian Portuguese Spanish Russian English Danish Estonian Finnish Croatian Hungarian Polish Swedish Chinese Bulgarian Catalan Czech Greek Basque Farsi Hebrew Lithuanian Norwegian (Bokmål) Dutch Romanian Slovak Serbian Turkish |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This maintenance release fixes many bugs and includes a few small new features.


Release Notes: This is a maintenance release that adds a new network rule to avoid a chain-forking incompatibility with versions 0.7.2 and earlier. Users of version 0.7.2 and earlier are requested to upgrade as soon as possible.


Release Notes: This major release improves performance and handles the increasing volume of transactions on the network.


Release Notes: This is a minor bugfix release.


Release Notes: This is a minor bugfix release.
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