Yeah, it being built upon a decentralized multiple transaction-ledger means that no singular nation’s treasury has control over its value. It’s also actually great for law enforcement because removing a transaction from the history is incredibly difficult, places that offer “private” transactions just create thousands of fake transactions to hide the real one inside, but the evidence still exists.
One of the largest BTC owners on earth is the USA’s FBI who have confiscated tons of the stuff used in illegal activity.
EDIT: Noteworthy is that BTC is far from the most efficient tool for this exact use case. Not all blockchains are equal in power consumption for example, Ethereum apparently uses far less per transaction.
On Ethereum using less: this is due to a different consensus mechanism involved, one that is more eco-friendly, but less distributed and inherently (mathematically) less secure.
Generally, it should be fine on the scale of Ethereum, but Bitcoin has it safer, at the cost of plenty of power and e-waste.
Not sure what angle this is coming from, but about 10k validators are needed to secure Ethereum. In BTC all it takes is for Antpool and Foundry to team up and you are above the 51% threshold.
Absolutely not the best. just the best adoption rate due to being first. Also because buying any other crypto usually involves step 1: buy bitcoin and step 2: trade for whatevercoin.
Wasn’t the point of crypto to actually be used as a currency?
Yeah, it being built upon a decentralized multiple transaction-ledger means that no singular nation’s treasury has control over its value. It’s also actually great for law enforcement because removing a transaction from the history is incredibly difficult, places that offer “private” transactions just create thousands of fake transactions to hide the real one inside, but the evidence still exists.
One of the largest BTC owners on earth is the USA’s FBI who have confiscated tons of the stuff used in illegal activity.
EDIT: Noteworthy is that BTC is far from the most efficient tool for this exact use case. Not all blockchains are equal in power consumption for example, Ethereum apparently uses far less per transaction.
On Ethereum using less: this is due to a different consensus mechanism involved, one that is more eco-friendly, but less distributed and inherently (mathematically) less secure.
Generally, it should be fine on the scale of Ethereum, but Bitcoin has it safer, at the cost of plenty of power and e-waste.
True
False. 888k Ethereum validators. 80k Bitcoin Nodes
Not sure what angle this is coming from, but about 10k validators are needed to secure Ethereum. In BTC all it takes is for Antpool and Foundry to team up and you are above the 51% threshold.
Absolutely not the best. just the best adoption rate due to being first. Also because buying any other crypto usually involves step 1: buy bitcoin and step 2: trade for whatevercoin.
Lol, yeah sure. Just buy the dip and no one gets hurt*
I mean there have been a few use cases beyond illegal business.