Welcome to the Hive/PeakD community dedicated to Bitcoin, the currency of the Internet. Bitcoin is a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin. You might be interested in Bitcoin if you like cryptography, distributed peer-to-peer systems, or economics. A large percentage of Bitcoin enthusiasts are libertarians, though people of all political philosophies are welcome.
This Bitcoin group for Hive is graciously managed by MintDice.com.
Bitcoin
For discussion to all things related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
Description
Rules
- Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the real link.
- Begging/asking for bitcoins is absolutely not allowed, no matter how badly you need the bitcoins. Only requests for donations to large, recognized charities are allowed, and only if there is good reason to believe that the person accepting bitcoins on behalf of the charity is trustworthy.
- News articles that do not contain the word "Bitcoin" are usually off-topic.
Leadership
@mintdiceadmin
@threespeakadmin
Data on the Bitcoin Lightning Network | BTC Balance, Number of Nodes, Channels and More | Oct 2026
Bitcoin has scaling issues. It’s almost design at this point. Not sure there was a vision in the very early days when the network was started, but after the block wars of 2017, the path has been chosen.