Currencies have existed for several millennia; they arose primarily as a replacement for the ineffective barter trade. The functions that a currency took on were essential to the development of an efficient economy with division of labor. In the beginning, different items were used as currency, including metals, pearls, shells […]

Currencies have existed for several millennia; they arose primarily as a replacement for the ineffective barter trade. The functions that a currency took on were essential to the development of an efficient economy with division of labor. In the beginning, different items were used as currency, including metals, pearls, shells […]

But while fraudulent credit-card purchases are reversible, bitcoin transactions are not. Each bitcoin has a complicated ID, known as a hexadecimal code, that is many times more difficult to steal than someone’s credit-card information. And since there is a finite number to be accounted for, there is less of a […]