Millibitcoin
| MilliBitcoin (mBTC) is a unit of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. It is equal to one thousandth of a Bitcoin (BTC). mBTC is a popular unit of Bitcoin, especially among traders and investors. Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain. Bitcoin was invented by an unknown person or group of people under the name Satoshi Nakamoto and released as open-source software in 2009. Bitcoins are created as a reward for a process known as mining. They can be exchanged for other currencies, products, and services. As of February 2015, over 100,000 merchants and vendors accepted bitcoin as payment. |
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