• Slyke@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Yes, simply put, that’s how it works. You should read the whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

    The first sentence:

    A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution