Bitcoin has lost over half its value in less than 6 months. Shortly before Christmas, it was trading at over $19,000; today, it is just $8,299. Unsurprisingly, Bitcoin investors have been predicting meteoritic

The recent buzz on cryptocurrency – especially Bitcoin – is making amateur and professional traders alike invest more money on the markets as it became easier to trade on them. But before you go to an

Many people wonder what gives Bitcoin its value. The first question many people ask is whether Bitcoin is backed by anything. The answer: Bitcoin is backed by its code as well as its utility—that is, what

So you’ve decided you want some bitcoins. Sounds simple enough, but what now? An important decision to make is what, exactly, you want to do with the bitcoins you obtain. First things first: forget about

BITCOIN IS NOT SO MUCH a single software program as it is software written using a model called the blockchain that is can be used to build other very similar programs (related cryptocurrencies like Litecoin,

WHILE WE HAVE SO FAR DISCUSSED it as currency, its advocates frequently promote Bitcoin as a new form of money (see, e.g., Emery and Stewart 2015; Smart 2015). Money and currency are not identical. “Money,”

FEDERAL RESERVE CONSPIRACY THEORIES are the most prominent elements of far-right propaganda found in Bitcoin commentary. This is not to suggest a direct genealogical connection between, for example, Mullins’s

MOST PEOPLE FIRST ENCOUNTER BITCOIN as a digital currency (this is shorthand; whether it is a “true” currency is a matter for debate). While Bitcoin is entirely a digital “object,” this does not make it

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IN THE EARLY 2010S, and then especially throughout 2013, observers of digital culture began to read more and more about a new form of digital payment called Bitcoin. Although any number of digital payment

First of all, you can’t really find bitcoins on a computer, as all bitcoins live on the public blockchain. However, you might have found a wallet app, or a private key giving access to a bitcoin address

No more than any other fiat money/currency: What is Fiat Money? A bit coin is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. A fiat currency only has value because people believe that they will be able

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The amount of energy required by the Bitcoin fad has been forecast to hit half a per cent of the world's entire electricity supply by Christmas 2018. The network estimated to already be consuming 2.55

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