A digital currency in which transactions are verified and records maintained by a decentralized system using cryptography, rather than by a centralizedAn organizational structure wherein a small handful of actors have control over the entire network. In the context of bitcoin,... Read More authority.
(as an aside: assigning this as an external url, links the term itself in the term list, to the outside source instead of this page. This shows up in the categories page though as it’s own page, so it links differently in lists than in categories. more investigation is in order)
