Progress, Not Perfection Siddhant's Journal Entry on cryptocurrency research
Most of the interest in Bitcoin is associated with the age of
information, a new economy in which the Internet strives to disrupt the way we interpret the world and behave in it. By the same token, Bitcoin's collection of technological properties can dramatically change our economy as well. Furthermore, it is important to underline that given that the conceptual foundation of digital currencies is attributed to Information Technology, a lagged interest was given to the research about the definition and scope from an economical point of view. On this matter, recently many authors have been studying the impact Bitcoin can exert on financial markets and fiat money. As Franco (2014) argues, whether the value of Bitcoin has a future within our economy or not relies on the forces driven by its application. Bitcoin as well as alternative coins (Altcoins) has been vastly criticized due to its declared rejection of a centralized financial system, deriving to the inability of countries' central authorities to exert control over situations such as levy cash movements, money laundry and fighting illegal activities, among other issues. Though it doesn't have any intrinsic value or physical form, Cryptocurrency offers a secure means of money, as it is digitally secured using cryptographic sequences and techniques. In other words, Cryptocurrency is safe, secure, fast and global. As much as we may think of Cryptocurrency as 'the ideal currency', it does have its drawbacks, major one being its regulation and stability. Bitcoins can be formed in only one way- by solving a cytological problem in the Cryptographic Bitcoin network. The one who solves the cytological problem the fastest is rewarded with newly formed Bitcoins.
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