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Bitcoin integration/staging tree
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Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
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http://www.bitcoin.org
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Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers
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Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Core Developers
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What is Bitcoin?
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Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to
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anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate
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with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried
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out collectively by the network. Bitcoin is also the name of the open source
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out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source
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software which enables the use of this currency.
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For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
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the Bitcoin client software, see http://www.bitcoin.org.
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the Bitcoin Core software, see http://www.bitcoin.org/en/download.
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License
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Bitcoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
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Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
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information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
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Development process
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Wladimir J. van der Laan
11 years ago