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[[bitcoin_network_ch08]]
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== The Bitcoin Network
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Bitcoin is structured as a peer-to-peer network architecture on
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Bitcoin is ((("Bitcoin", "as peer-to-peer network", secondary-sortas="peer-to-peer network", seealso="Bitcoin network")))((("peer-to-peer networks", "Bitcoin as", seealso="Bitcoin network")))((("networks (Bitcoin)", see="Bitcoin network")))((("Bitcoin network")))structured as a peer-to-peer network architecture on
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top of the internet. The term peer-to-peer, or P2P, means that the
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full nodes that participate in the network are peers to each other, that
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they can all perform the same functions, and that there are no "special" nodes.
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