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BitCoin: Zen Yotta Mond Data
What is BitCoin?
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What is BitCoin?
How many people have asked? How many people have answered; yet, you still don’t REALLY know what the hell BitCoin is. Some say it’s just digital money. The “digital” part is obvious, it typically means computers and computer networks are involved. But what about “money”? What is money? This question was the basis for the last article which you can read here:
What is Money?: https://medium.com/@EquityDiamonds/why-many-smart-coders-dont-get-bitcoin-6c87239253d1
Money is always a proof of work. It’s not just any proof of work but the MOST EFFICIENT proof of work (more than gold, or electricity, or cow chips) which allows people to conduct commerce. Armed with this knowledge, it’s now appropriate to move on to the trillion dollar question: What is BitCoin?
When done reading this article, here is the expected rewards for the reader — whether the reader is an artist, a Wall Street financier, or a software engineer:
1. An understanding what BitCoin REALLY is, by comparing it to another familiar asset class everyone understands: Real Estate.