What is Bitcoin? To the uninitiated, this question sounds rather unexciting. They understand Bitcoin to be a cryptocurrency as it is repeatedly portrayed by the mainstream media. While this is true on a very superficial level, the common Bitcoiner would stress the fact that Bitcoin is more than just a cryptocurrency, financially speaking. There is Bitcoin the network or protocol as well as bitcoin/BTC the currency or asset.
In making this differentiation they follow the footsteps of popular Bi