# Bitcoin
*Canonical page:* https://truthscore.com/entity/bitcoin--e51d5fb1
*Machine twins:* https://truthscore.com/entity/bitcoin--e51d5fb1.md · JSON at https://truthscore.com/api/v1

Kind: **asset**

Also written as: the Bitcoin network · the Bitcoin

## Involved in

- [The system was built on government cryptography, potentially seeded by intelligence institutions, deployed at the peak of the financial crisis, marketed as a…](https://truthscore.com/claim/2e441499)
- [Bitcoin's security architecture rests entirely on SHA-256.](https://truthscore.com/claim/3933827d)
- [Bitcoin mining is now dominated by a small number of large corporate operations.](https://truthscore.com/claim/847d80bd)
- [Mining Bitcoin now requires industrial infrastructure, massive energy consumption, and access to capital that no individual miner can compete with.](https://truthscore.com/claim/857cf5f2)
- [Bitcoin records every transaction permanently on a public ledger that anyone can download and cannot alter or delete.](https://truthscore.com/claim/95e2472e)
- [In Bitcoin’s early years, an individual with modest hardware could mine meaningful amounts of Bitcoin.](https://truthscore.com/claim/a5e8155b)