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Bitcoin can be used to pay for things electronically if both parties are willing. But it differs from fiat Digital Currencies in Several Important Ways: 1. Decentralization 2. Limited Supply 3. Pseudonymity 4. Immutability 5. Divisibility
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Index • Bitcoin • Decentralization • Limited Supply • Pseudonymity • Immutability • Divisibility
Bitcoin • Bitcoin can be used to pay for things electronically if both parties are willing. • In this sense, it's like current dollars, Euros, or yen, which are also traded digitally. • But it differs from fiat Digital Currencies in Several Important Ways:
1. Decentralization • Bitcoin's is the most important characteristic is that it is decentralized. • No single institution controls the bitcoin network. • It is managed by a group of volunteer coders and run by an open network of dedicated computers spread around the world. • It attracts the individuals and groups that are uncomfortable with the control that banks or government institutions have over the money.
Bitcoin solves the "double spending problem" of electronic currencies through an ingenious combination of cryptography and economic incentives. • In electronic fiat currencies, this function is fulfilled by banks, which gives them control over the traditional system. • The integrity of the transactions is managed by a distributed and open network, owned by no-one.
2. Limited Supply • Fiat Currencies have an unlimited supply: Central banks can issue as many as they want and can attempt to manipulate a currency value relative to others. • Holders of the currency bear the cost. • On the other hand, supply is tightly controlled by the underlying algorithm.
A small number of new bitcoins trickle out every hour and continue to do so at a diminishing rate till a maximum of 21 million has been reached. • It makes bitcoin more attractive as an asset - in theory if demand grows and the supply remains the same, the value will increase.
3. Pseudonymity • While senders of traditional electronic payments are identified, users of bitcoin, in theory, operate in semi-anonymity. • Since there is no any central validator, users do not need to identify themselves when sending bitcoin to another user. • When the transaction request is submitted, the protocol checks all the previous transactions to verify that the sender has the necessary bitcoin as well as the right to send them.
The system does not need to know his/her identity. • In practice, each user is identified by the address of his/her wallet. • Transactions can be tracked in this way. • Also, law enforcement has developed methods to identify the users if necessary.
Furthermore, the most exchange is required by law to perform identity checks on their customers before they are allowed to buy or sell bitcoin, promoting another way that the bitcoin usage can be tracked. • Since the network is transparent, the progress of a particular transaction is visible to all. • It makes bitcoin not an ideal currency for the criminals, terrorists or money-launderers.
4. Immutability • Bitcoin transactions cannot be reversed, unlike the electronic fiat transactions. • If a transaction is recorded on a network, and if more than an hour has passed, it is impossible to modify it. • While it may disquiet some, it does mean that any transaction on the bitcoin network cannot be tampered with.
5. Divisibility • The smallest unit of a bitcoin is called a satoshi. That is one hundred millionth of a bitcoin (0.00000001) - at today's prices, about one-hundredth of a cent. • It could conceivably enable microtransactions that traditional electronic money cannot.
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