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Fundamentals · Modern Bitcoin

Permissionless access

Bitcoin allows anyone who can communicate with the network to run software, receive bitcoin, verify history, or attempt to mine without membership approval.

Context

Why it matters

Bitcoin allows anyone who can communicate with the network to run software, receive bitcoin, verify history, or attempt to mine without membership approval.

Canonical knowledge

What California Bitcoin maintains

  • Bitcoin allows anyone who can communicate with the network to run software, receive bitcoin, verify history, or attempt to mine without membership approval.

Primary and technical sources

Evidence before assertion
Bitcoin Developer Documentation

Bitcoin.org

Tier — · technicalBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Satoshi Nakamoto

Tier 1 · primary

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