Bitcoin is a decentralized currency. Bitcoin is the most popular DApp and its success is what showed how powerful DApps can be and encouraged people to build other DApps.
Before we get into further details about how Bitcoin works and why people and the government consider it to be a currency, we need to learn what ledgers and blockchains are.
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