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Re: in which form bitcoin stored on the blockchain?
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nc50lc
on 01/07/2022, 08:18:10 UTC
-snip- i am not asking about mining? halving or how a bitcoin transaction works. i have studies about them. i am just asking the form of bitcoin exist. i know it is not physical. just try to understant what i am seeking here..
Aren't those the fundamentals to know how the bitcoins are stored?

Anyways, it's not in a single server.
Every node has/had it's own self-verified copy of the blockchain which consists of blocks where transactions are recorded.
Stored bitcoins are every transaction's outputs, so coins are just stored as transactions.
Clients/wallet are just making it simple by always checking which ones are still unspent and saving them in easy to access forms.

For the "mined" coins, those are technically called "coinbase transaction" (not Coinbase, the company).
Those are pretty similar to a normal transaction but it's not pointing to a existing unspent transaction output, also it's the first transaction that's stored in every block.