Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a digital payment system, implemented as open source and released in January 2009 by unknown programmer or group of programmers ; It is a digital asset,It is commonly referred as digital currency, digital cash, virtual currency, electronic currency, or cryptocurrency; The question whether bitcoin is a currency or not is still disputed;
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a digital payment system, implemented as open source and released in January 2009 by unknown programmer or group of programmers
It is a digital asset,It is commonly referred as digital currency, digital cash, virtual currency, electronic currency, or cryptocurrency
The question whether bitcoin is a currency or not is still disputed
Bitcoins can be bought and can be sold on- and offline, you can buy stuff by using bitcoins
As of February 2015, over 100,000 merchants and vendors was accepting bitcoin as payment like Dell, Microsoft, PayPal, Overstock.com, Expedia etc
It being used in illegal activities like money laundering, black market, malware etc