Introduction
A digital or virtual currency that uses peer-to-peer technology to facilitate instant payments.
Bitcoin is a type of alternative currency known as a cryptocurrency and it uses cryptography for security, making it difficult to counterfeit.
Bitcoin issuance and transactions are carried out collectively by the network, with no central authority.
The total number of Bitcoins that will be issued is capped at 21 million to ensure they are not devalued by limitless supply.
They are divisible to 8 decimal places; Bitcoin fractions are called satoshis.
Users store their Bitcoins in a digital wallet, while transactions are verified by a digital signature known as a public-encryption key.
History
“The term Bitcoin was proposed in a white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. On September 18, 2008 the domain bitcoin.org was bought and later registered and published the first Bitcoin client in 2009.
On July 12, 2010 the first transaction was conducted with 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas and then on July 17, the now-largest Bitcoin exchange MtGox went online. On October 17, 2010 The bitcoin-otc channel was activated on the Freenode IRC to enable global chatting on currency exchange.
On June 11, 2010 the volume of bitcoins was already at US$1 million and on February 9th, 2011 Bitcoin reached parity with $1 U.S. dollars. After an April TIME Magazine feature and an article in early June, the price went up to about $30. In a few days, the price crashed, and several thousands of online accounts and bitcoins were stolen.
In the first four months of 2013, the share price has multiplied and on April 1 of that year Bitcoin broke through the US$100 mark at MtGox. Today, the pizza order is worth more than 1 million euros.
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Conclusion
Facts
The first Bitcoin Transaction was executed on 12/01/2009. It takes 5 years for a single bitcoin to go from $0 to $1,000.20000+ number of computer working at minning new bitcoins. There will be 21 million number of bitcoins that will be available. In 2012, an academic from the Carnegie Mellon CyLab and the Information Networking Institute estimated that 4.5 to 9% of all bitcoins transacted were for purchases of drugs at a single online market. In a separate case, escrow accounts with bitcoins belonging to patrons of a different black market were hacked in early 2014. So it’s up to us, the Bitcoiners of the world, to continue to build, include, educate, develop and create new relationships with each other while using this new amazing technology for the betterment of mankind
On “Black Tuesday” stock prices dropped completely. After “Black Tuesday” stock prices couldn’t get any worse or so they thought, but however prices continued to drop, the U.S. fell into the Great Depression, and by 1932 stocks were only worth about 20 percent of their value.
The stock market expanded rapidly during the period of 1921-1929. At this time investors were optimistic about the stock market, so they traded stocks, which caused the stock prices to rise. The stock market boom led to asset prices rising at a fast pace. Which in turn outweighed the true value of the assets. Eventually, since the stock market did not reflect the true value of the stock, this led to a huge bubble followed by a crash. This crash is also known as the Great Depression that led to a severe economic crisis in the United States.
Bitcoin is a digital currency that was started in 2009. It is a digital representation of currency with no actual tangible representation. Bitcoin, commonly abbreviated as BTC or XBT, is distributed worldwide, decentralized digital money (also called cryptocurrency). It is decentralized, meaning it is not controlled nor backed up by any government, country, or individual entity. Unlike traditional currencies, such as dollars and euros, bitcoins are issued and managed without any regulation from any central government. Thus, it is more resistant to inflation and corruption. A Bitcoin derives its value basically from the demand and usage of bitcoins, similar to a stock. Bitcoin doesn’t derive its value from the government; it derives its value from the people. The more that use/accept it, the more of a demand there for it, and the more valuable it becomes. Bitcoin is controlled by the people; you are your own bank. Transaction terms are determined by the user. Bitcoins can be bought with credit cards, PayPal, bank transfers, or even going to a local bitcoin exchange and buying them with cash. A person can acquire bitcoins as a payment for goods or services, purchase them with real money at a Bitcoin exchange, exchange bitcoins with someone you know, or earn bitcoins through performing mining services for the network. It has value and can be exchanged for real physical money, it’s valued exchange rate goes up and down like a stock, and it’s traded online like PayPal, but it is none of these. It’s widely considered as the future of world currency, but also scrutinized as a gateway for illegal activity. So which is it?
Owning bitcoins can be directly related to having a bitcoin address and an specific digit which controls the bitcoins known as a key. Most if not all bitcoin addresses are accompanied with the private key to make the bitcoins available for controlling. In order to protect your bitcoins you must secure the private code that correlates to its control. If the key is lost or accidentally changes possession to another person that knows the code, the bitcoins can be lost for good without ever being replaced.
Imagine a world where there are no banks or even a need for wallets. This may sound like a nice freedom at first until illegal activities sky rocket; including the drug and sex trade. The economy will crash and millions of people will be left high and dry with a worthless currency. This type of chaos will not only devastate the United States but will also be seen world wide. With the way technology has been advancing this could be a very plausible future, thanks to Bitcoins. Bitcoins are a new form of digital currency in which the consumer uses and stores all of their money on a computer. This allows for quick trade, not only within your own country but others as well (Ethley par. 2-4). Although there may seem to be great benefits that Bitcoins offer, they are actually more damaging then beneficial. Bitcoin use will have a huge negative effect on the economy, they are filled with security issues, and support criminal activity due to their anonymous nature.
What's wrong with prices these days? I can remember 10 cents a pop. " I still remember the snare. Things started changing on a Thursday. “Three or four days before the Depression, on Thursday, October 24, 1929 12.9 million shares traded, in excess of 7.9 million shares.
Beginning on Black Tuesday, October 29th, 1929, a total of 14 billion dollars was lost in America’s economy. Near the end of the week the 14 billion turned into a total of 30 billion dollars (The Great Depression Facts). Many events during the Stock Market Crash caused damage to the economy and lifestyle of the country, ending with recuperations from The Depression.
The site launched in 2006 but gained the bulk of its popularity in 2012 when the site surpassed five hundred million registered users. (techcrunch.com) As of September 2013 data from the company showed that their millions of users send out four hundred million tweets per day. (theguardian.com) Due to it’s extreme success Twitter announced it would file for an IPO. Seventy million Twitter shared were priced at $26 and on it’s first day of trading on the New York Stock exchange they closed at $44.90. This valued the company at thirty-one billion dollars. (BBC)
On Tuesday, October 29th, 1929, the crash began. (1929…) Within the first few hours, the price fell so far as to wipe out all gains that had been made the entire previous year. (1929…) This day the Dow Jones Average would close at 230. (1929…) Between October 29th, and November 13 over 30 billion dollars disappeared from the American economy. (1929…) It took nearly 25 years for many of the stocks to recover. (1929…)
This was the same year when Bill Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. In 1981, Bill Gates’ company was hired to develop an operating system but rather than creating a new operating system they decided to buy a preexisting operation system called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) for the amount of 50,000 dollars. After modifying the operating system they bought, they renamed the operating system to MS-DOS. After MS-DOS began selling it brought in a steady income for Gates due to the fact that the PC market was growing and there weren’t many competitors in the market for them to compete with. In 1986, when Microsoft Corporation went public, it made Gates into a millionaire overnight. The following year, Microsoft released their first ever version of
While Bitcoin is a currency, it is really better to understand it as a public ledger. This ledger which is viewable by anyone, records every transaction within the network, and verifies the transaction from every computer on the network. This is the algorithm that the invention of Bitcoin solved. This system is very similar to the ledger that banks use to manage money electronically in their systems. While their system is controlled by a private company, Bitcoin is totally decentralized. It is not a corporation or bank deciding what is happening with your money, it is not decided by anyone buy you. It is simply confirmed using validated math and proven computer science.
A new form of currency has existed for quite some time now called cryptocurrency. The most typical cryptocurrency is Bitcoin; it processes transactions or store funds in network software, not rely on a central server.
According to its semi-official definition, a cryptocurrency is “a peer-to-peer, decentralized, digital currency whose implementation relies on the principles of cryptography to validate the transactions and generation of the currency itself.” (While that is one dense slab of prose, to be fair to the cryptoids, it wouldn’t be easy to define the dollar succinctly either.) What this means is that Bitcoin and the rest are electronic currencies created and transferred by networked computers with no one in charge. The role of cryptography is not merely to guarantee the security of the transaction, but also to generate new units of the currency, which are “mined” by having computers solve complicated mathematical problems. Once solved, new coins are created and their birth— with digital signatures guaranteeing authenticity and uniqueness—announced to the rest of the system.
...tal part of lives just like privacy. Using cryptology provides mechanisms through a digital signature. This signature is inserted using a key (that only the writer of the email possesses) whilst a timestamp binds itself to the document. This type of cryptography is used to control access of security installations or pay-per-view television channels.
Firstly, an insight into crypto-currencies, what they are and how they can benefit the worlds economy. A crypto-currency is ‘digital medium of exchange’(RhettandLink) - managed through extensive encryption techniques known as cryptography. Comparable with fiat money, no group or individual can stunt, increase or abuse the production of crypto-currencies. No economic systems can regulate the production or value of the currency, the system that crypto-currencies are based upon was created by Satoshi Nakamoto - purposely creating Bitcoin which the practise of fractional reserve banking would be virtually impossible. Bitcoin is currently the most successful crypto-currency to date - created in 2009, this anonymous decentralized digital currency has been the target of several raids and hacking sprees; the media are contemplating the significance of Bitcoin in our current worlds economy. Whether it has potential of overruling fiat-currencies or if it’s just a puerile project created by the aberrant Satoshi Nakamoto.