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The Bitcoin Universe: An Architectural Overview of the Bitcoin Blockchain
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2018
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Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
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On January 2009, the emergence of Bitcoin surprised theworld with a new idea involving decentralized secure money transfers outside the ecosystem of FIAT currencies. The concepts behind the Bitcoin architecture the blockchain can, however, be extended to a much wider range of economic assets than just digital currencies. In general, a blockchain is a distributed, verifiable database, which operates through a confluence of public-key cryptography, the concept of proof of work and P2P-systems.