wukan wrote:Swenani wrote:It appears to me bitcoin and other cyrpto-currencies are not backed up by anything apart from trust and hope
So too is fiat currency just ordinary paper that we trust and hope holds value. As the people of Venezueala and Zimbabwe found out it's not backed by anything
BLOCKCHAIN.
That is the key word you need to research and get to understand Swenani.
It is not just applicable to bitcoin,currently being used/tested in many different ways for record keeping; land registry, ease of scrutiny, elimination of centralised intermediaries etc
Think of it this way;
A complete history of
every transaction is stored on the
blockchain, and
all of these recorded transactions are
open to
public scrutiny.
Those bold words are key to the craze.
Live and learn; and don’t forget, nothing ventured, nothing gained.