Bitcoin is a P2P electronic cash system Whitepaper https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin #deflation Bitcoin is a deflationary currency TODO #energy Energy consumption Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index https://www.cbeci.org/ (broken-ish without custom fonts) Bitcoin used to consume more energy than Switzerland, but as of 2020-08-04 it's a bit lower, between Kuwait and Switzerland.