Showing posts with label cryptocurrency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cryptocurrency. Show all posts

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Bitcoin and How It Becomes Real Money

Background

Cryptocurrency is a secure digital medium of exchange which use principle of cryptography. Bitcoin is the most well-known cryptocurrency. Bitcoin trading was began on 2009 and the number of Bitcoin user have increased significantly since then. Like gold, Bitcoin is obtained buy so called mining process which is a process to solve complex algorithm and miner will obtain Bitcoin if they can solve it. Bitcoin is a decentralize money and open source. It means that it is not controlled by an entity (e.g central bank) and many people can monitor it, so it immunes to predation of banker and politician. The unique subject of Bitcoin phenomenon is how it gains a value and how it becomes real currency. Bitcoin do not have intrinsic value, same as paper money. Long time ago paper money value is tied to the value of gold. However now their value come from a government backing because important commodity are priced in them e.g oil only can be bought using USD. How about Bitcoin?