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# Bitcoin
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Bitcoin is the first [crypto asset](cryptoasset.md) investment developed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto.
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## Properties
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Bitcoin is not a [currency](currency.md).
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Bitcoin is a [speculative](speculation.md) investment.
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Bitcoin is a [bearer instrument](bearer-instrument.md).
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Bitcoin is [deflationary](deflationary.md).
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Bitcoin has no [fundamental value](fundamental-value.md).
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Bitcoin has no [use value](use-value.md).
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Bitcoin has no [income-cashflows](income-cashflows.md).
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Bitcoin has a [present-value](present-value.md) of zero.
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Bitcoin has a [terminal-value](terminal-value.md) of zero.
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Bitcoin is a [greater fool theory](greater-fool-theory.md) asset.
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Bitcoin is a [non-productive](productive-asset.md) investment.
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Bitcoin has a negative [expected return](expected-return.md).
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Bitcoin is a [security](security.md).
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Bitcoin is allegedly a [sound money](sound-money.md) in the [Austrian economics](ideologies/austrian-economics.md) school of thought.
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Bitcoin is based on [consensus algorithm](consensus-algorithm.md) known as Proof of Work [mining](mining.md). |