Package bitcoin: Information
Source package: bitcoin
Version: 0.16.3-alt0.M80P.1
Build time: Sep 21, 2018, 07:49 PM in the task #213346
Category: Networking/Other
Report package bugHome page: http://www.bitcoin.org/
License: MIT
Summary: peer-to-peer network based anonymous digital currency
Description:
Q. What is Bitcoin? A. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new money or tracks transactions. These tasks are managed collectively by the network. Q. How does Bitcoin work? A. Bitcoin utilises public-key cryptography. A coin contains the owner's public key. When a coin is transferred from user A to user B, A adds B's public key to the coin, and the coin is signed using A's private key. B now owns the coin and can transfer it further. A is prevented from transferring the already spent coin to other users because a public list of all previous transactions is collectively maintained by the network. Before each transaction the coin's validity will be checked.
Maintainer: Alexei Takaseev
List of contributors:
Alexei Takaseev
Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
Ivan A. Melnikov
Eugeny A. Rostovtsev
Dmitry V. Levin
Vladimir V Kamarzin
Alexei Takaseev
Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
Ivan A. Melnikov
Eugeny A. Rostovtsev
Dmitry V. Levin
Vladimir V Kamarzin
Last changed
Sept. 20, 2018 Alexei Takaseev 0.16.3-alt0.M80P.1
- Version 0.16.3
July 27, 2018 Alexei Takaseev 0.16.2-alt0.M80P.1
- Version 0.16.2
June 14, 2018 Alexei Takaseev 0.16.1-alt0.M80P.1
- Version 0.16.1