ENGLISH BITCOIN
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GENERAL - What is bitcoin?
- What are bitcoins?
- How can I get bitcoins?
- Does Bitcoin guarantee an influx of free money?
- Is Bitcoin a 'get-rich-quick' scheme?
- Will I make money by installing the client?
- As an investment, is Bitcoin a sure thing?
- Can I buy bitcoins with Paypal?
- Where can I find a forum to discuss Bitcoin?
- How are new bitcoins created?
- What's the current total number of bitcoins in existence?
- How divisible are bitcoins?
- What do I call the various denominations of bitcoin?
- How does the halving work when the number gets really small?
- How long will it take to generate all the coins?
- If no more coins are going to be generated, will more blocks be created?
- But if no more coins are generated, what happens when Bitcoins are lost? Won't that be a problem?
- If every transaction is broadcast via the network, does Bitcoin scale?
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ECONOMY
- Where does the value of Bitcoin stem from? What backs up Bitcoin?
- Is Bitcoin a bubble?
- Is Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme?
- Doesn't Bitcoin unfairly benefit early adopters?
- Won't loss of wallets and the finite amount of Bitcoins create excessive deflation, destroying Bitcoin?
- What if someone bought up all the existing Bitcoins?
- What if someone creates a new block chain, or a new digital currency that renders Bitcoin obsolete?
- Is Bitcoin open to value manipulation?
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SENDİNG AND RECEİVİNG PAYMENTS
- Why do I have to wait 10 minutes before I can spend money I received?
- Do you have to wait until my transactions are confirmed in order to buy or sell things with Bitcoin?
- I was sent some bitcoins and they haven't arrived yet! Where are they?
- I sent too small of a transaction fee, is my bitcoin lost forever?
- Why does my Bitcoin address keep changing?
- How much will the transaction fee be? Why is the fee so high?
- What happens when someone sends me a bitcoin but my computer is powered off?
- How long does "synchronizing" take when the Bitcoin client is first installed? What's it doing?
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NETWORKING
- Do I need to configure my firewall to run Bitcoin?
- How does the peer finding mechanism work?
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MINING
- What is mining?
- Is mining used for some useful computation?
- Is it not a waste of energy?
- Why don't we use calculations that are also useful for some other purpose?
- How can we stop miners from creating zero transaction blocks?
- How does the proof-of-work system help secure Bitcoin?
- Why was the "Generate coin" option of the client software removed?
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SECURITY
- Could miners collude to give themselves money or to fundamentally change the nature of Bitcoin?
- Could miners gang up and give themselves money?
- Can they do so in ways not sanctioned by Bitcoin network? Is there any way to rip off the network and make loads of money dishonestly?
- Could miners fundamentally change the nature of bitcoin?
