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Proponents of Bitcoin argue that it is not susceptible to devaluation by inflation or seigniorage in the way other modern "fiat" currencies are. Nor is it associated with an arbitrary store of value such as gold, unlike hard-money or representative currencies. The Bitcoin protocol was first described by Satoshi Nakamoto a pseudonym in Each bitcoin is divided into million smaller units called satoshis. MtGox was the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, until February when the site shut down and trading was suspended.

It was subsequently announced on Bitcoin news that over , Bitcoins had been stolen from customers of this exchange. Quandl provides historical data for MtGox. Note that this data stopped updating on 25 Feb Quandl has daily prices for over crypto-currencies from Cryptocoin Charts. You can view all Quandl's cryptocurrency time series on our Cryptocoin Charts source page. Dogecoin data, from Dogecoin Average, is available from our Dogecoin Average source. If you have any questions about this data, or would like to add more datasets to Quandl, please email us.

For professionals, investors and institutions, we recommend the BraveNewCoin premium bitcoin databases. These specialist databases include comprehensive, accurate, quality-audited, well-documented and reliable long-term price histories for the vast majority of cryptocurrencies. JSON , CSV Bitcoin Market Size Quandl provides several measures of the size and value of the Bitcoin market, including the total number of Bitcoins in circulation, the market capitalization of Bitcoin, and the number of unique Bitcoin addresses in use.

More About Bitcoin Currency Bitcoin is a digital currency based on an open-source peer-to-peer software protocol that is independent of any central authority. Bitcoin Data from MtGox MtGox was the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, until February when the site shut down and trading was suspended. Want even more cryptocurrency news sources?

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