Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Bitcoin, The New Gold?


Bitcoin is the new money of the future. It's a startup currency, which is the first of its kind. Bitcoin is the first “decentralized” electronic currency neither controlled by an organization nor government. Being an open sourced project, Bitcoin currently has more than 100,000 users worldwide. Using a unique decentralization method has been Bitcoin’s basis for security and freedom. Day in and day out, people from all over the world use this unique decentralization method of compensation to trade hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoins every day without the use of a middleman or credit card companies.
Bitcoin uses 21 million secure mathematical tokens (Bitcoins) as money, secured by advanced cryptography many times stronger than that used by banks. Instead of simply just sending or receiving, coins are cryptographically signed over from one party to another. The equivalent of putting a lock and key on each token so that Bitcoins can be securely backed up in multiple places, and so that copying doesn't increase or decrease the amount you own.
Emails enable us to send free messages worldwide, Skype allows us to make phone calls for free. Now there's Bitcoin, the first digital currency that is completely individually distributed. Bitcoin’s network is made up of ordinary users, so a bank or payment processor is no longer required between trades. Bitcoin lets you send money to anyone online, anywhere in the world for less than a cent, and overtime many store in Europe are picking up on the trend.
Personally, I’m old fashion. I’m the savings account under the mattress type of guy. I like being able to physically count my money without worrying about external forces (hackers). But the idea of a mathematically generated currency is interesting, and I’m intrigued to see what innovations come of this.

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2 comments:

  1. this product is very interesting. i would like to see how it does in the market and how many people will actually use it.

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  2. It's really amazing to see how far we have came with currency. When the English first came to America, they use precious rocks as currency. Now that we are moving into a digital era we are using digital money. I can't wait to see what the future may hold.

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