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== Introduction

=== What is Bitcoin?

==== A currency
==== A network and protocol
==== A distributed ledger
==== A transaction language
==== An API

=== Getting Bitcoin

==== Obtaining the bitcoin software
==== bitcoin-qt, bitcoind
==== mobile client

=== History of bitcoin

==== A brief history of money
==== A brief history of crypto currencies
==== Public key cryptography and crypto-currency
==== Peer-to-Peer networks
=== The history of bitcoin
==== Why would I use bitcoin
===== As a merchant
===== As a consumer
===== As a developer, integrator
===== As an entrepreneur
===== As an investor