The real value of bitcoin and crypto currency technology
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What if there's a technological advancement so powerful that it transforms the very basic pillars of our society, a technology which fundamentally influences the way that our economy, governance systems and businesses function and could change our conceptual understanding of trade ownership and dressed? This technology already exists, and it's called Cryptocurrency. People often think of Bitcoin as only virtual money or a transaction system. But if you look closer, you'll see that the monetary aspect is just the tip of the iceberg. That's because Bitcoin is a groundbreaking Internet technology for which money is merely one of the possible applications. Money exists to facilitate trade. Through the centuries, trade has become incredibly complex. Everyone trades with everyone worldwide, trade is recorded in bookkeeping, and this information is often isolated and closed to the public. For this reason, we use third parties and middle men we trust to facilitate and approve our transactions. Think of governments, banks, accountants, notaries and the paper money in your wallet. We call these trusted third parties. This'll brings us to the essence of Bitcoin. Bitcoin software enables a network of computers to maintain a collective bookkeeping via the Internet. This'd bookkeeping is neither closed nor in control of one party. Rather, it is public and available in one digital ledger, which is fully distributed across the network. We call this the block chain in the Blockchain. All transactions are logged, including information on the time date participants and amount of every single transaction. Each node in the network owns a full copy of the Blockchain on the basis of complicated state of the art mathematical principles. Transactions are verified by the so called Bitcoin miners who maintained the ledger. The mathematical principles also ensure that these notes automatically and continuously agree about the current state of the ledger and every transaction in it. If anyone attempts to corrupt transaction, the nodes will not arrive at a consensus and hence will refuse to incorporate the transaction in the Blockchain. So every transaction is public, and thousands of nodes unanimously agree that a transaction has occurred on date. X at time y It's almost like there's a notary present at every transaction. This'll way everyone has access to a shared single source of truth. This is why we can always trust the Blockchain. Ledger doesn't care whether a Bitcoin represents a certain amount of euros or dollars or anything else of value or property. For that matter, users can decide for themselves what a unit of Bitcoin represents. A Bitcoin is divisible in 100 million units, and each unit is both individually identifiable and program bull. This means that users can assign properties to each unit. Users can program a unit to represent a euro cent or a share in a company, a kilowatt hour of energy or a digital certificate of ownership. Because of this, Bitcoin is much more than simply money and payments. A big queen can represent many kinds of property 1000 barrels of oil award credits or vote during elections, for example. Moreover, Bitcoin allows us to make our currency smarter and toe autumn eyes are cash and money flows. Imagine a healthcare allowance in dollars or euros that can only be used to pay for health care at certified parties. In this case, whether someone actually follows rules is no longer verified in the bureaucratic process. Afterwards, you simply program these rules into the money air go compliancy upfront. The unit can even be programmed in such a way that it will automatically return to the provider if the receiver doesn't use it after a certain amount of time. This way, the provider can ensure that allowances are not hoarded. A company can control its spending in the same way by programming budgets for salaries, machinery, materials and maintenance, so that the respective money is specified and cannot be spent on other things. Autumn izing such matters leads to a considerable decrease in bureaucracy, which saves accountants, controllers and the organization in general on incredible amount of time. The programmable, open character of Bitcoin allows us to completely rebuild and innovate our financial sector, and our administrative processes make them more efficient and transparent and significantly decreased bureaucracy. But there's more in an Internet of things. Our economy will be dealing with machines that actively participate in the economic traffic. In fact, they're already here. Think of a vending machine or drones delivering packages. These machines are unfamiliar with the concept of trust, but Bitcoin is not because of Bitcoin. The drone could be 100% certain that it will deliver the package to the right recipient and know for sure that it's been paid for. And we can program the vending machine in such a way that it will automatically keep track of its supplies, order new supplies from the supplier and pay for them automatically. Of course, you'll understand that this is only the beginning. Internet technology is disruptive and breaks the status quo. It opens markets and breaks the positions of middle men all the time. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies have caused a paradigm shift. It's time to explore this new technology constructively and critically and openly discussed potential applications.