What You Need to Know to Understand the Splitting of Bitcoin
There has been a lot of talk recently about the splitting of Bitcoin into two separate currencies. What is Bitcoin, and what is happening with the splitting? Bitcoin is a digital asset and a payment system invented by Satoshi Nakamoto. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public dispersed ledger called a blockchain. Bitcoin is unique in that there are a finite number of them: 21 million.