Welcome CRYPTO CURRENCY Today, we’ll be discussing, briefly, cryptocurrency. We’ll try to understand in a layman’s terms the basic details that encapsulates cryptocurrency. What is cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrency is digital or virtual money. That means there’s no physical coin or bill — it’s all online. You can transfer cryptocurrency to someone online without a go-between, like a bank. Bitcoin and Ether are well-known cryptocurrencies, but new cryptocurrencies continue to be created(Consumer Information, 2018). In simple, basic language that’s the definition of cryptocurrency. So as you can see it isn’t rocket science. Though, there are aspects to it they are complicated (we’ll get to that). Cryptocurrencies work using a technology called blockchain. Blockchain is a decentralized technology spread across many computers that manages and records transactions. Part of the appeal of this technology is its security.(NerdWallet, 2021). The blockchain is a complex procedure on it’s own a...
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