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The Code Most People Never See Yeah,yeah i know more than 90% of the people reading this have heard of bitcoin. Everyone talks about Bitcoin's price. Few people talk about what makes it actually work. Under the hood, Bitcoin is a marvel of applied cryptography, distributed systems, and elegant scripting and you don't need to be a cryptographer to understand it. 01 Transactions How a transaction is born When you send Bitcoin, your wallet doesn't move coins the way a bank does. Instead, it cons...

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