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Bitcoin: What You Need To Know | Technology | Theguardian.com
Bitcoin, a currency no company controls
Bitcoins are an anonymous, decentralised, peer-to-peer digital currency.In contrast to older forms of electronic money, no company controls Bitcoin, nor ever could: all the rules about how it works are embedded into the very operation of trade, including the rate of inflation and how to verify transactions.