How Does Bitcoin Work? Say there’s a coin that’s currently worth hundreds of U.S. dollars, but it’s not made of gold, or platinum, or any precious metal. In fact, it’s not the kind of coin you can hold in your hand or stick in a piggy bank. It’s a digital currency, which means it only exists electronically. I’m talking about bitcoin. Bitcoin doesn’t work like most money. It isn’t attached to a state or government, so it doesn’t have a central issuing authority or regulatory body. Basically, that means there’s no organization deciding when to make more bitcoins, figuring out how many to produce, keeping track of where they are, or investigating fraud. So how does bitcoin work as a currency, or have any value at all? Well, bitcoin wouldn’t exist without a whole network of people and a little thing called cryptography. In fact, it’s sometimes described as the world’s first cryptocurrency. And here’s how it works. Bitcoin is a fully digital currency, and you can exchange bitcoins betw...
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