Cryptocurrency: Characteristics of an Ideal Money System
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Attributes of “ideal” Money • 1. General Acceptability • 2. Portability • 3. Indestructibility or Durability • 4. Homogeneity • 5. Divisibility • 6. Malleability • 7. Cognizability • 8. Stability of Value
bitgold 1. Solve puzzles to earn ‘gold’ 2. The solution is added to a public chain of ownership 3. This solution becomes part of the next puzzle Double Spending weakness
bitcoin “We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures. Each owner transfers the coin to the next by digitally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner and adding these to the end of the coin. A payee can verify the signatures to verify the chain of ownership.”
bitcoin • Chain of Transactions vs. Chain of Property • Mining=finding the hash of a block of transactions so the first x characters are 0 • Miners incentives
bitcoin 0 1 2 3
The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes. As long as a majority of CPU power is controlled by nodes that are not cooperating to attack the network, they'll generate the longest chain and outpace attackers. To modify a past block, an attacker would have to redo the proof-of-work of the block and all blocks after it and then catch up with and surpass the work of the honest nodes. We will show later that the probability of a slower attacker catching up diminishes exponentially as subsequent blocks are added.
Satashi Nakamoto- 44th Richest man on the planet ($19 Billion)
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