“What makes Bitcoin money? The same thing that makes all money money — trust, in this case backed up by a lot of code-breaking computers. Created in 2009, Bitcoin has grown into the world’s largest virtual currency, traded on exchanges around the world. It’s the product of open-source software and a decentralized network of electronic ‘miners,’ making it a multibillion-dollar experiment in monetary privatization and perhaps the first step toward an age when the digital economy outgrows the restraints of nation states and wallets full of paper.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/bitcoins/
(Visited 374 times, 1 visits today)
Related posts:
And how would you like to pay, sir – cash, credit card, or Bitcoin?
For sale: Systems to secretly track cellphone users around the globe
This Is What Happens When Citizens Get Fed Up Over Speed Cameras
Monsanto unapproved GMO wheat was in Colorado government storage facility until 2011
Congress slams Fed's permanent crisis lending proposal
U.S. tax deal jeopardizes Canadians’ privacy
U.S. gold bars and coins find new home overseas on Asian demand
ISIS boast of slaughtering 1,700 Iraqi soldiers in ongoing rampage
Deportations of illegal immigrants in 2012 reach new US record
Trump will arm Syrian Kurds to fight ISIS, over Turkey’s fierce objections
U.N.-led committee to rewrite Syrian constitution over Syria's objections
Miami police officers caught on camera allegedly ignoring 911 calls, report says
2013 was a year for American rule breakers
Japan ‘takes issue with Google maps’ over disputed islands
Supreme Court Messes With East Texas ‘Patent Troll’ Hotbed