Bitcoin block time

1. The concept of bitcoin was first proposed by Nakamoto on November 1, 2008, and was officially born on January 3, 2009. According to the idea of Nakamoto, the open source software is designed and released, and the P2P network on it is constructed. Bitcoin is a virtual encrypted digital currency in the form of P2P. Point to point transmission means a decentralized payment system
unlike all currencies, bitcoin does not rely on a specific currency institution to issue. It is generated by a large number of calculations based on a specific algorithm. Bitcoin economy uses a distributed database composed of many nodes in the whole P2P network to confirm and record all transactions, and uses cryptography design to ensure the security of all aspects of currency circulation. The decentralized nature and algorithm of P2P can ensure that it is impossible to artificially manipulate the value of bitcoin through mass proction. The design based on cryptography can make bitcoin only be transferred or paid by the real owner. This also ensures the anonymity of money ownership and circulation transactions. The biggest difference between bitcoin and other virtual currencies is that the total amount of bitcoin is very limited and it has a strong scarcity

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Bitcoin network generates a new block every ten minutes. Every time a miner completes a block, he can get a certain amount of bitcoin as a block reward, and the reward will be halved for every 210000 blocks mined. Because the time for mining each block is limited to 10 minutes, at this rate, the period for the reward to be halved is four years, that is to say, the reward for bitcoin blocks is halved every four years

when the bitcoin block reward was halved for the first time, its price rose 25 times from 300 yuan to 7995 yuan; In the second half, the price rose 28 times from 5011 yuan to 140000 yuan. So many people predict that the third halving of bitcoin in May 2020 will lead to a sharp rise in the price of bitcoin, at least 10 times. However, these figures are not so clear. After halving in 2012, bitcoin prices rose for two months, and in 2016, there was almost no immediate response to deflation for a month. This may also be the result of the strategy of "buying rumors and selling news" implemented by some speculators

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after bitcoin halved, the supply slowed down, and keeping deflation through algorithm has always been a part of bitcoin protocol design. It was set up to ensure the value of bitcoin. By recing block incentives and setting the maximum possible supply of bitcoin at 21 million bitcoins, bitcoin has an anti inflation feature, which runs counter to the tendency of central banks to print money at will. At present, there are about 17.5 million bitcoins in circulation, and less than 3.5 million bitcoins are available for mining. When the next block award halves, bitcoin's annual inflation rate will drop from the current 3.8% to about 1.8%

maintaining deflation through algorithms has always been a part of the design of bitcoin protocol. It was created to guarantee the value of bitcoin. By recing block incentives and keeping the total amount of bitcoin at 21 million bitcoins, bitcoin is endowed with an anti inflation nature, which is different from the tendency of central banks to print money at will. At present, there are about 17.5 million bitcoins in circulation and less than 3.5 million available for mining. The next block award cut in half could rece bitcoin's annual inflation rate from the current 3.8% to about 1.8%. This will be the first time in bitcoin's history that it has fallen below the historical average of about 2% - 3% growth in gold supply

3. On January 4, 2009, Nakamoto created the first bitcoin block on a server in Finland and won 50 bitcoin awards. If you are interested in special currency, you can go to chain tiger finance to learn about it.

4. First of all, you need to understand the time point of bitcoin Mining:
a total of 2100W bitcoins are issued, and each block is generated for 10 minutes, and a block rewards a certain number of bitcoins. In the beginning, 50 bitcoins were awarded for each block of mining. In the future, the reward was halved for every 21000 blocks (about once every four years). Now, 12.5 bitcoins are awarded for each block generated. The generation time of each block is 10 minutes, but with the development of computer technology, now the mining calculation power is increasing, so the generation time of a block must be less than 10 minutes, which requires certain control measures to ensure this time. This measure is the difficulty of mining. If the output time of each block is less than 10 minutes, the difficulty of mining will be increased. If the output time is more than 10 minutes, the difficulty of mining will be reced. The difficulty adjustment time is 2016 blocks, that is, 2 weeks
after every 2016 blocks, all nodes will automatically adjust the mining difficulty according to a certain formula. This formula is obtained by comparing the latest time spent in 2016 blocks in this cycle with the expected time (20160 minutes, i.e. two weeks)
new difficulty = old difficulty * (time spent in the past 2016 blocks / 20160 minutes)

5. A block size of bitcoin is 1MB. There is no limit on the size of each transaction. A block can generally contain 2000-3000 transactions.

6. Each block contains the information of all recent transactions, a nonce (random number) and the hash value of the previous block. When the SHA-256 hash value of the whole block is lower than the current target value, it is marked as "resolved" (published and verified by multiple nodes). Usually, it is difficult to achieve the goal by hashing once, so nonce must be increased, and blocks must be hashed millions of times to achieve the goal.

7. Today (January 3) is bitcoin's "birthday"; It was on January 3, 2009, nine years ago that the "Genesis block" was born in the bitcoin blockchain network, that is, the groundbreaking block # 0, "Block 0".

8. Bitcoin is a kind of cryptocurrency based on decentralization, using peer-to-peer network and consensus initiative, open source, and blockchain as the underlying technology. Under normal circumstances, an ordinary home computer can bear up to 1000h / s of computing power. According to the hash collision data of bitcoin 3 million times per second, if it is just an ordinary home computer, even if it is mining 24 hours a day, it can dig up to 0.0018 bitcoins a day. It takes at least 556 days to dig out a complete bitcoin. If it is not lucky in the middle of the way, it will be difficult to dig out a complete bitcoin, It may take more time

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9. The time stamp in the blockchain exists in the block from the moment the block is generated. It corresponds to the authentication of each word information and proves the authenticity of the information record
for the time stamp in the blockchain, jinwowo group understands it like this:
the time stamp is written directly in the blockchain, and the generated blocks in the blockchain can not be tampered, because once tampered, the generated hash value will change and become an invalid data
each time stamp will also include the previous time stamp into its random hash value. This process is repeated and connected in turn, and finally a complete chain will be generated.

10. There is a guy named Nakamoto Tsung who invented blockchain technology. Bitcoin is a proct based on blockchain technology. It was probably in 2009.