How Bitcoin Makes Transactions Cheaper

How Bitcoin Makes Transactions Cheaper

There are many reasons to be excited about bitcoin: it could enable totally new business and technology models; it resembles the internet in the early '90s in the sense that it is a network that no-one owns and everyone can contribute to; it could revolutionise legal concepts of ownership; it could disrupt the payments industry; it could even become a tax haven. It could also flop. In an earlier post, I described the thinking behind my first angel investment in the digital currency space: CoinDesk. In this post, I discuss what first got me excited about bitcoin - the solution to the....


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