Bitcoin Price Current price of bitcoin in dollars Maintaining the blockchain falls on a global network of communicating nodes (computers running Bitcoin software). Each network node stores its own copy of the blockchain so as to independently verify the chain of ownership. Approximately every 10 minutes, a new block of transactions is added by "miners" to the chain, shared with all nodes, sans central oversight.

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