Bitcoin Can Be The Change You’ve Been Waiting For
Bitcoin offers a way for us to stop just appearing like we want to fix things, instead making real change.We live in a pretend world with pretend ideals, pretend money and pretend language. A world of quick fix and quick bucks, where the road to success no longer requires hard work, just papering over whatever defects emerge. If something doesn’t seem as perfect as the movies or your neighbor’s life, we medicate, we whitewash, we dress up in fancy garbs and decorated facades until we convince ourselves and everyone else that the inside isn’t corrupt and failing, but respectable and....
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I’ll assume you’ve already heard about Bitcoin since you’re reading an article on this cryptocurrency-related website. But do you know how does it work? It’s based on a blockchain which is an public ledger for transactions that is resistant to tampering and changing data by anyone. How’s that possible? It’s quite simple in principle but very complex to achieve. When you make a transaction with Bitcoin it creates a record that is saved on a blockchain forever. There are thousands of computers spread around the world called “nodes” that keep the copy of a blockchain and are always connected....