What is bitcoin backed by? The currency is backed by a public ledger, called the blockchain, which specifies which bitcoins are in which account and identifies everyone’s holdings. The blockchain is in turn backed by decentralized replication, consensus, advanced cryptography and a network with the most computing power of any network in history. Each coin […]

This: “Then there’s ‘cyberbusiness’. We’re promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obsolete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if […]

“For more than 100 years, from roughly 1800 to 1912, the purchasing power value of the dollar under the gold-and-silver standard was essentially constant. With the creation of the Federal Reserve and its discretionary policies of the last century, however, the dollar’s value has declined by more than 95 percent.” – http://www.soundmoneyproject.org/?p=9136 Not that we […]