New Age Currency: Bitcoins Welcome to the Future Economy Money! The single word that will grab everyone 's attention and by definition it means something that is used to pay for goods and services and more. But over the last 6,000 years, the material form of money has changed drastically—from sheep and textiles to online banking and today 's electronic currency, the bitcoin. Founded in 2009, Bitcoin was not the first swing at online currency; but it was the first to take off. At its launch, $1 =
Many people who have heard of bitcoins struggle to understand how it can have an actual, tangible dollar value. The idea of money not backed by any government or authority having value sounds absurd. For that matter, most people fail to think about the value of any traditional ‘fiat’ currency. After all it is just paper isn’t it? All modern paper currency today has value because they backed by the government. People are confident that others will hold money to its face value because it has a powerful
history of Bitcoins is a very interesting one with its dramatic and unexpected rise. In recent years it has attracted the attention of many entities to include the media, law enforcement, investors, and even criminals. The book, Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money looks into these stories of the individuals who sought to create a new global currency. Journalist Nathaniel Popper compiles the stories behind the rise of bitcoins into a timeline
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Introduction Bitcoin is a payment system that was published in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin can be “used to make online payments that do not include financial institutions” (Mazzei, 2015). Bitcoins can be used all over the world at many restaurants, law firms, and other online services. Bitcoins can revolutionize the entire world’s payment system and take over our cash-based society (Wonglimpiyarat, 2015). It may be the payment system of the future but the vulnerability that it possesses is
Origins of Bitcoin The term Bitcoin first came to light around 2008. Bitcoin is a digital form of currency (aka cryptocurrency) that can be traded on the internet around the world and it quickly stroked the interest of IT savvy enthusiast for its cleverness and libertarian who saw it as means of non-governmental controlled currency, but the “icing on the cake” was Bitcoin can be used anonymously. This in turn has attracted the dark side of illegal trades of narcotics, weapons and a varying sort of
threat to the governments monopoly. For instance, in Russia, cryptocurrencies are a threat to the Russian central bank. According to Kenneth Rapoza, “cryptocurrencies have a risk of undermining the circulation of money” (Rapoza,” Russia Faces Internal Battle Over Bitcoin."). They also pose a threat to the government body due to the anonymity of entities within the Cryptocurrency system. These digital cash systems are issued by unidentified entities that can also be involved in illegal activities such
Paul Gumienny KPMG, LLP 2015 Winter Internship The Bitcoin Future Bitcoin is a new currency that was introduced in 2009 by an unknown person using the alias “Satoshi Nakamoto” who left the project in 2010 (Business Insider, 2014). Currently, Bitcoin is maintained by developers and a community of volunteers around the world. The interesting thing about this currency is that it is completely digital, that means that all transactions occur only through the internet and therefore it does not belong
that are created by a cryptocurrency community using a process called mining (Bajpai, 2015a). The very first cryptocurrency that emerged was Bitcoin, created by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and the software behind it has been released as open source hence why there are numerous alternatives of bitcoin, generally called Altcoins; Altcoins, basically, are like Bitcoins in many ways but not quite the same. (Guadamuz, Marsden, 2015). Much the same as some other physical monetary forms, for example, Pounds or
paper money, credit card, mobile phone banking services via SMS, Euro currency in 23 countries, Bitcoin or most latest Facebook Credits. There was an interesting and very accurate assumption made by J. Surowiecki (2012), he wrote that “Over the ages, money has become more abstract, virtual and digital”. As we could see above, the money developed from gold, paper money, credit card to virtual Bitcoin or Facebook Credits. The first part of the essay will be focused on the