Bitcoin

The base chain itself: plain value held in unspent transaction outputs, which every protocol above ultimately rides on.

Chain

Bitcoin

Carrier

Native transaction outputs

Ownership model

utxo

Operations

send, receive

Also written

btc

Where it came from

Created outside Bitcoin Universe by Satoshi Nakamoto, 2009.

Where the specification lives

Bitcoin has no Bitcoin Universe specification repository. Its specification is Bitcoin Core and the BIP process, maintained upstream.

Bitcoin Universe indexes or implements it in Universe-operated Bitcoin Core nodes.

Support in Bitcoin Universe products

Bitcoin has no marketplace entry in the Core protocol registry, so no Bitcoin Universe product implements a trade path for it. Where a Universe indexer exists, the data is available through that indexer rather than through a product surface.

Provenance

Capability facts on this page were generated from backend/packages/ecosystem-contracts/lib/protocols.js in bitcoinuniverseio/core at 15dd03b5986a. Implemented behaviour is not the same as production availability: see how to read our status.