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For this post, we have collated questions about cryptocurrency and answered the most frequently asked by beginners, to help you get started on your journey. So let's start with the absolute basic fundamentals:

What Is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, often referred to as a virtual currency or digital currency, used as a method of exchange or store of wealth. On a very basic level, it is a piece of code. There are no physical coins to speak of, rather, there are UTXOs (unspent transaction outputs) that make up the balance in your wallet.

Bitcoin was created following the financial crash of 2008 as a solution to government and central bank manipulation of money and the...