Cryptocurrencies have become adapted to religious norms and are being used to earn huge profits, causing confusion for entire states in how to respond to these new technologies.



This article addresses the main idea behind cryptocurrencies and how they work, as well as their advantages over existing payment systems and the role video cards play in their operation.
In order to prevent fraudulent activities, like the manipulation of financial records, a hash function (such as md5sum) can be used to generate a non-obvious encryption sequence, called a hash, which is associated with each transaction, making it difficult to modify past data without recalculating all subsequent hashes. Additionally, a nonce can be added to each entry to further increase security.

Kris has found a way to make his financial records public, without the need for hiding them. He partners with five friends who help him generate nonces for each new transaction that gets added to the diary. The first person to find the appropriate nonce receives a small reward. This new payment system, Bitcoin, uses these nonces to record each transaction, and the sequence of these records is called a blockchain. The process of generating these nonces is called mining, and the people involved in the process are known as miners. The demand for video cards and electricity in Bitcoin mining increases as more transactions occur.

Bitcoin's advantages include decentralization, meaning it is not under the control of any individual or organization and does not require authenticating passport data; anonymity, as users can have multiple addresses and transactions can be traced, but not the identity behind them; stability, since no block in the blockchain can be altered or replaced; and limited issue, as the system gradually reduces the number of bitcoins mined per unit of time, leading to a constant value of bitcoins in the future.

Although goods determine the value of money, solvency also plays a role. The ratio of money to goods remaining the same, the central bank printing more money is not necessarily evil. A reason for issuing money could be to launch the economy by providing cash advances for manufacturing. However, money, like gold, is useless in itself and exchanging mined cryptocurrency for products is an unnatural transaction.

The speculative component is what attracts people to mining. Anonymity does not guarantee protection against bandits offering incentives to share cue balls. It is sufficient for them to know that you have cryptocurrency, but the anonymity of the Bitcoin wallet system prevents them from knowing that it belongs to you.