What is Cryptocurrency ???and What is cryptocurrency and how cryptocurrencies emerged as a side product of digital cash
----Meaning of Cryptocurrency ---
1•Exchange is a source of exchange using securities to secure transactions,
2•cryptocurrency ,There is a type of digital currency
3•Cryptocurrency is primarily related to privacy principles
4----•A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to secure its transactions, to control the creation of additional units, and to verify the transfer of assets.
5---• Cryptocurrencies are classified as a subset of digital currencies and are also classified as a subset of alternative currencies and virtual currencies.
6--•Bitcoin, created in 2009, was the first decentralized cryptocurrency.Since then, numerous other cryptocurrencies have been created.[5] These are frequently called altcoins, as a blend of alternative coin.
7--•Bitcoin and its derivatives use decentralized control as opposed to centralized electronic money and central banking systems.
8--• The decentralized control is related to the use of bitcoin's blockchain transaction database in the role of a distributed ledger.
9--•Virtual currencies, perhaps most notably Bitcoin, have captured the imagination of some, struck fear among others, and confused the heck out of the rest of us.” – Thomas Carper, US-Senator,
10--•But beyond the noise and the press releases the overwhelming majority of people – even bankers, consultants, scientists, and developers – have a very limited knowledge about cryptocurrencies. They often fail to even understand the basic concepts.
10--•Few people know, but cryptocurrencies emerged as a side product of another invention. Satoshi Nakamoto, the unknown inventor of Bitcoin, the first and still most important cryptocurrency, never intended to invent a currency.
11----•In his announcement of Bitcoin in late 2008, Satoshi said he developed “A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.“
---His goal was to invent something; many people failed to create before digital cash.
--- Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending. It’s completely decentralized with no server or central authority. – Satoshi Nakamoto, 09 January 2009, announcing Bitcoin on SourceForge.
12---•The single most important part of Satoshi‘s invention was that he found a way to build a decentralized digital cash system. In the nineties, there have been many attempts to create digital money, but they all failed.
… after more than a decade of failed Trusted Third Party based systems (Digicash, etc), they see it as a lost cause. I hope they can make the distinction, that this is the first time I know of that we’re trying a non-trust based system. – Satoshi Nakamoto in an E-Mail to Dustin Trammell>,
------::-What are cryptocurrencies really?
If you take away all the noise around cryptocurrencies and reduce it to a simple definition, you find it to be just limited entries in a database no one can change without fulfilling specific conditions. This may seem ordinary, but, believe it or not: this is exactly how you can define a currency.
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