Bitcoin: past, present and future of the best known virtual currency(bitcoin prime)A systems analyst named Laszlo Hayeck, who lived in Louisville, USA, ordered two pizzas over the phone and paid for them with a coin that was just beginning to circulate.He was fortunate, or not, that whoever took the order accepted the payment with Bitcoins (BTC).
They agreed and for that $ 30 consumption Hayeck paid 10,000 BTC.It was far from assuming that just seven years later those 10,000 virtual currencies, which at that time were trading at $ 0.003 each, would reach their all-time high of no less than about $ 5,000.
In other words, they were valued no less than 1.7 million times.If instead of eating pizza Hayeck had kept them in his possession, today he would have amassed a fortune, which amounted to 50 million dollars, equivalent to 3.3 million pizzas .
What is a mystery is what the owner of the pizzeria did with those Bitcoins, but that is another story ...Now, the usual question in these cases is precisely: what is a Bitcoin?Without going into technicalities, it can be said that it is a currency that arises from a “Bitcoin Protocol” published in 2009 by Natoshi Nakamoto, a unique character whose true identity to date no one knows.
So much so that over the years several names of possible candidates emerged and it was even speculated that the CIA itself was behind all this.Bitcoin was born with high ambitions: to provide a fast, low-cost means of payment that cannot be controlled or manipulated.The truth is that Nakamoto originally stated that “Bitcoin was born with high ambitions: to provide citizens with a means of payment that enables the execution of fast value transfers, at low cost and that, furthermore, cannot be controlled or manipulated by governments, central banks or financial entities ”.In practice it is a virtual currency that is acquired through Web platforms and is stored in virtual wallets; For its defenders, its main virtue is the possibility of making all kinds of transactions globally anonymously and securely, and above all at very low cost.Although it also allows a wide range of commercial operations to be carried out, its main application is of a financial nature, since the enormous volatility of its price is a determining factor for those who buy and sell goods and services with it.To have a reference to the almost instantaneous variations of its price, it is worth mentioning that its price went from US $ 500 in September of last year to US $ 5,000 in August of this year, with deep oscillations along the way.
?a decentralized “major newspaper”, since there is no single global control body that manages and accounts for the millions of transactions that are carried out daily.That task is in the hands of the so-called "miners", who are in charge of "extracting" the Bitcoins from the mines.