# Overview

Bitcoin is a decentralized, proof-of-work Layer-1 blockchain that uses a UTXO model to secure peer-to-peer value transfer validated by miners and full nodes.

Bitcoin's native token is `BTC` .

`satoshis` are the smallest unit of currency on the Bitcoin blockchain, there are 100 million satoshis in 1 Bitcoin, equally 1 satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC. 

## Network Support

| Network                                                  | HTTPS | WSS |
| -------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | --- |
| Mainnet - including Blockbook & Esplora Indexer support  | ✅     | N/A |
| Testnet (Testnet3) - Blockbook & Esplora Indexer support | ✅     | N/A |

## Compute Units

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th></th><th width="100"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>getbestblockhash</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getblock</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getblockchaininfo</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getblockcount</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getblockhash</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getblockheader</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getblockstats</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getchaintips</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getchaintxstats</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getdifficulty</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getmempoolancestors</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getmempooldescendants</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getmempoolinfo</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getrawmempool</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>gettxout</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>gettxoutproof</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>gettxoutsetinfo</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getmemoryinfo</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getconnectioncount</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>decoderawtransaction</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>decodescript</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getrawtransaction</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>sendrawtransaction</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>testmempoolaccept</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>estimatesmartfee</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>getindexinfo</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>validateaddress</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>verifymessage</td><td>10</td></tr></tbody></table>

All **Blockbook & Esplora Indexer REST API** methods are valued at `10` Compute Units.