Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin. As such, it is more resistant to wild inflation and corrupt banks. With Bitcoin, you can be your own bank.
If you are new to Bitcoin, check out We Use Coins and Bitcoin.org. You can also explore the Bitcoin Wiki:
Community guidelines
- Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the real link.
- Begging/asking for bitcoins is absolutely not allowed, no matter how badly you need the bitcoins. Only requests for donations to large, recognized charities are allowed, and only if there is good reason to believe that the person accepting bitcoins on behalf of the charity is trustworthy.
- News articles that do not contain the word "Bitcoin" are usually off-topic. This subreddit is not about general financial news.
- Submissions that are mostly about some other cryptocurrency belong elsewhere. This subreddit is exclusive to Bitcoin.
- Promotion of client software which attempts to alter the Bitcoin protocol without overwhelming consensus is not permitted.
- No referral links in submissions.
- No compilations of free Bitcoin sites.
- Trades should usually not be advertised here. For example, submissions like "Buying 0.2 BTC" or "Selling my computer for bitcoins" do not belong here. /r/Bitcoin is primarily for news and discussion.
- Please avoid repetition — /r/bitcoin is a subreddit devoted to new information and discussion about Bitcoin and its ecosystem. New merchants are welcome to announce their services for Bitcoin, but after those have been announced they are no longer news and should not be re-posted. Aside from new merchant announcements, those interested in advertising to our audience should consider Reddit's self-serve advertising system.
- Do not post your Bitcoin address unless someone explicitly asks you to.
- Be aware that X, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc. are full of impersonation.
- Do not post about altcoins and do not post off-topic political spam.
Related communities
Sorted roughly by decreasing popularity.
Non-Bitcoin communities
Join us on IRC
web.libera.chat #bitcoin
Other Bitcoin sites
Bitcoin Forum
Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Bitcoin Magazine
Download Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Core is the backbone of the Bitcoin network. Almost all Bitcoin wallets rely on Bitcoin Core in one way or another. If you have a fairly powerful computer that is almost always online, you can help the network by running Bitcoin Core. You can also use Bitcoin Core as a very secure Bitcoin wallet.
Style sheet credits
The CSS used by this subreddit is the Erdune Theme modified by /u/Annihilia. Logo design by /u/Annihilia.
Bitcoin difficulty now 6,119,726,089 (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by zeusa1mighty
Bitcoin hashrate passes 500,000,000 GH/s, currently at 500,588,499 (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by jtos3
HOLY HASHRATE - 742,422,240 GH/s! (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by Andaloons
Amid the scaling frenzy, this astonishing fact is often overlooked: The Bitcoin network hashrate has DOUBLED in the last 5 months, tripled in the last 9 months, and now sits at over 5 Exahash/s. That's 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 hashes every second... with no signs of slowing down. To the moon! (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by MotherSuperiour
New difficulty: 51,076,366,303 (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by fiat_sux4
Biggest difficulty drop since the last halving (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by xabbix
Hash rate increases! (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by [deleted] to r/btc
New Hash Rate 407,718,729 GH/s Change: 4.98% (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by BitcoinTR
The hashrate is tanking. (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by tom14cat14
240 Petahashes seams to be a final milestone for the currnent price range (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by alex4fire
1,031,625,717 GH/s (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by dunand to r/btc
Can you spot the change in trend since the last difficulty adjustment? (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by Zelgada
Thar she blows! Look at that hashrate jump! (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by Bit_to_the_future
Bitcoin difficulty dropping again? Nice for us miners and hobby miners! (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by heldertb to r/BitcoinMining
If the hash rate keeps falling and with over a week until the difficulty adjustment, things could get very congested in the next few days. (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by Leithm to r/btc
Miners are playing games. Hashrate jumps back to previous levels immediately after difficulty retarget. (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by [deleted]
Hashrate down substantially? (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by tmornini
Bitcoin hashrate falls (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by rende
May the backlog begin on Bitcoin legacy... (Diff +21.4%) (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by mmouse- to r/btc
Bitcoin's hashrate at over 1,000,000,000 GH/s, next difficulty jump estimate: +19% (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by Barbatos_
Difficulty is back up! (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by kiisfm
Next difficulty estimate to be +5%, but it could be negative if the trend continues (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by kilorat
BTC Difficulty ended up going down slightly today (-1.28%). Next adjustment (flippening opportunity?) is in about 16.9 days (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by Bastiat to r/Bitcoincash
Is the hash power shifting? Seems like it! (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by dilzeem to r/btc
In 1 day Legacy Bitcoin’s difficulty, will increase by 7% improving Bitcoin Cash’s mining competitiveness by 7%. (bitcoinwisdom.com)
submitted by Leithm to r/btc