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Background And Protocol Summary
Bitcoin is described on the same page as a decentralized cryptocurrency first outlined in a 2008 whitepaper by a person or group using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto, and it was launched soon after in January 2009.
The page summarizes Bitcoin as a peer to peer online currency, explaining that all transactions occur directly between equal, independent network participants without an intermediary to permit or facilitate them.
It also quotes Nakamoto's own words that Bitcoin was created to allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution, and it notes that earlier concepts existed but Bitcoin was the first to come into actual use.
