
How Bitcoin works – episode 8: security
Episode 8 takes a look at the question of security. Are the records of ownership on the Bitcoin island safe or is there a way of changing them without consent of the owners?
Episode 8 takes a look at the question of security. Are the records of ownership on the Bitcoin island safe or is there a way of changing them without consent of the owners?
Now that we understand transactions and mining, we can go ahead and take a look at transaction fees.
Now that we know a little bit about Bitcoin mining, we can explore the topic of land supply on the Bitcoin island and take a closer look at mining rewards we mentioned in the previous episode.
Up until now the story of Bitcoin island was pretty straightforward. “Mining”, however, promises to make things slightly more complicated. This episode takes a look at what mining is all about and why it is important.
Episode 4 takes a look at what “sending” and “receiving” bitcoin is all about.
In the 3rd episode we will look at anonymity and what kind of information the Bitcoin island actually stores about owners of land.
In the first episode we have introduced “bitcoin” – a unit of measure of land area on the Bitcoin island.
In the second episode we will take a look at bitcoin divisibility.
As mentioned in the introduction, Bitcoin belongs to the category of abstract token money. In its essence it is a system that records ownership of tokens called “bitcoins”. The banking system operates in a very similar way, but in most people’s minds it still records ownership of a physical token – banknotes. A 100 US dollar balance of a bank account equals ownership of a 100 US dollar bank note, the numbers represent something tangible in the real world.
Understanding how Bitcoin works on the technical level can be a little tricky. For most people it usually takes a lot of time and studying as Bitcoin combines a lot of innovative approaches to solve the problems of a free market monetary system. These approaches often don’t have any parallels in technologies we are already familiar with so we have to challenge ourselves with understanding completely new concepts.