How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood




A somewhat technical explanation of how Bitcoin works. Want more? Check out my new in-depth course on the latest in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and a survey of the most exciting projects coming out (Ethereum, etc): https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/bitcoin-decentralized-technology
Lots of demos on how to buy, send, store (hardware, paper wallet). how to use javascript to send bitcoin. How to create Ethereum Smart Contract, much more.

Shorter 5 min introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5JGQXCTe3c

Written version: http://www.imponderablethings.com/2013/07/how-bitcoin-works-under-hood.html

My Bitcoin address: 13v8NB9ScRa21JDi86GmnZ5d8Z4CjhZMEd

Arabic translation by Ahmad Alloush

Spanish caption translation by Borja Rodrigo, zordycorak@gmail.com, DFJWgXdBCoQqo4noF4fyVhVp8R6V62XdJx

Russian caption translation by Alexandra Miklyukova

Italian voice over: http://youtu.be/1aEf3qr7UdE
Italian captions translated by Simone Falcini, 1H5KdCnBooxfqpXtyQBBAKKRU7MkCZCVCe

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38 Comments

  1. Fantastic work! Dragon Mining recognizes this as a useful and informative video. 20 minutes worth watching if you're looking for an easy to understand technical explanation of how Bitcoin works.

  2. Just a small nitpicky note: Addresses in Bitcoin are not exactly the public key. They are hashes of the public key of an address in base58

  3. Its easy for the bankster and central banks to bring down bitcion to it's knees and outout business. IRS and Banks will treat bitccoin as an investment and will tax the hell out of it and they can also regulate bitcoin and other crypto currencies out of business. for bitcoins to work somewhat they will have to buy or own mastercard , visa or capital 1. american express. the creator of bitcoin is just like another pyramyd scheme

  4. If BTC saved thousands of peoples lives each year, and cuts down on impact upon nature by 97%.
    Then this is Progressive and saving the planet!

    Also, mining BTC will be over within 70 years. Then their will never be a need for mining again. However, FIAT will need to be mined the metal, forest cut, toxic ink, troops transports and bank robberies for the next 10,000 years at least.
    70 years, and no more mining BTC ever again. Only 21-million will ever be minted.

    Also, 3% of BTC has been used for drug's. While a staggering 87% of USD has been used for drugs. And 83% of USD has drug residue physically on them, harming little children. No BTC ever has any drug residue on them. Also, almost all drug bust around the world also include massive amounts of untraceable United States Dollars on hand.
    Bitcoin is 100% traceable all of the time.

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