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An Intro to Bitcoins

The way people handle money has really come a long way hasn't it? From cold hard cash, the virtual money, the people of today feel a lot safer with their money stored online than in a safe at home. And the latest in online peer to peer money exchange is Bitcoin. Bitcoin merchants is basically a type of digital currency which you can use for both personal as well as business transactions with a small, quite reasonable cost involved. This currency is nowadays known as internet money. There isn't any central authority which controls the value of Bitcoins either. While it was created quite a few years ago, it is only recently that it has started growing to unimaginable heights. What's more, speculators are positive that this rise is going to continue far into the future as well. And with more and more Bitcoin merchants popping up all over the internet every day, you would have to be a fool not to believe them.

 

Bitcoins themselves are what is used for transactions. They are exchanged using wallet softwares which you can install on your PC or even your smart phone. Bitcoins can either be obtained through service or product exchanges or they can be obtained through a complex procedure called mining.

 

This is something along the lines of mining for gold except there is no manual labor involved. This is the process through which you can create new Bitcoins. There is a public database known only as the block chain where all Bitcoin related transactions take place. Records are stored sequentially in this database. The people that maintain these databases are known as miners and as a reward, they get Bitcoins.

 

The easiest way for you to get Bitcoins though is to just buy them for cash. Remember though that the rates at which you will be able to buy Bitcoins is determined solely by the volume.

There are quite a few people who had invested in Bitcoins a while ago with the hopes that they will grow in value. Their dreams have come true today. But will Bitcoins be able to do even better in the future? It's hard to tell as the market is still finding it hard to understand the idea of an online currency. There are some limitations of using Bitcoins as well like not being able to reverse transactions and an extremely volatile rate of exchange. There definitely is some way to go for Bitcoin but if you want to make it big, aren't you supposed to invest on the ground level anyway?

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