L'objection du gaspillage d'électricité de Bitcoins
One of the main arguments in favor of fiat currency as opposed to the currency based on a scarce resource, namely gold, silver or bitcoins is that there is time which must be lost to undermine something that has no intrinsic value. Would not it be more effective, the fiat currency defenders debate, this agreement to use something easier to produce, such....
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Apple has approved a bitcoin wallet app for the iPhone and iPad, though not without a key restriction: App users will not be able to send BTC. bitWallet, made by a company called Sollico, is now available in the Apple App Store. The listing is notable given the struggles of high-profile bitcoin wallet providers such as Coinbase and Blockchain to have their apps remain in the store. Both companies saw their apps removed in events that outraged the wider bitcoin community. A company representative from Sollico says it submitted the wallet to Apple under the notion that it might be approved....
Belgium's finance minister has no problem with bitcoin, he said last week, although he pointed out that there are few people there using it. Minister of finance Koen Geens responded to a parliamentary question about bitcoin, commenting that he wouldn't see the Belgian National bank having any objection to bitcoin, and stating that for the moment its use is limited to a handful of traders. The nation's anti-money laundering organization - the Cellule de Traitement des Informations Financières - hasn't received any guidance on the cryptocurrency. Geens reportedly added that although privacy....
One of the main arguments in favor of fiat currencies as opposed to currencies based on a scarce resource, whether gold, silver or Bitcoins, is that time must be wasted mining something that has no intrinsic value. Would it not be much more efficient, fiat currency proponents argue, to agree to use something easier to produce, like paper, as currency and have one centralized agency prevent counterfeiting? However, while these arguments do have some merit against gold (especially due to the serious environmental damage that can come out of mining), Bitcoin mining is far more than the....