Coming days we may be moved to alternate channel of transaction. We just moved of parallel banking not currency. The way to alternate currency is too long. Here I shared my information about available alternate currency in this world and its feature. The details are gathered from various sources like news papers, magazines and base site of the related articles.
I choose today topic which is related to alternate currency that is “Bitcoin”.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a form of digital currency, created and held electronically. No one controls it. Bitcoins aren’t printed, like dollars or euros – they’re produced by people, and increasingly businesses, running computers all around the world, using software that solves mathematical problems. It’s the first example of a growing category of money known as crypto currency.
How it will different from normal currency?
Bitcoin can be used to buy things electronically. In that sense, it’s like conventional dollars, euros, or yen, which are also traded digitally.
However, bitcoin’s most important characteristic, and the thing that makes it different to conventional money, is that it is decentralized. No single institution controls the bitcoin network. This puts some people at ease, because it means that a large bank can’t control their money.
Who created it?
A software developer called Satoshi Nakamoto proposed bitcoin, which was an electronic payment system based on mathematical proof. The idea was to produce a currency independent of any central authority, transferable electronically, more or less instantly, with very low transaction fees.This currency isn’t physically printed in the shadows by a central bank, unaccountable to the population, and making its own rules. Those banks can simply produce more money to cover the national debt, thus devaluing their currency.
Instead, bitcoin is created digitally, by a community of people that anyone can join. Bitcoins are ‘mined’, using computing power in a distributed network.This network also processes transactions made with the virtual currency, effectively making bitcoin its own payment network.
Is it possible to mine unlimited Bitcoin?
The bitcoin protocol – the rules that make bitcoin work – say that only 21 million bitcoins can ever be created by miners. However, these coins can be divided into smaller parts (the smallest divisible amount is one hundred millionth of a bitcoin and is called a ‘Satoshi’, after the founder of bitcoin).
Bitcoin based on?
Conventional currency has been based on gold or silver. Theoretically, you knew that if you handed over a dollar at the bank, you could get some gold back (although this didn’t actually work in practice). But bitcoin isn’t based on gold; it’s based on mathematics.
Around the world, people are using software programs that follow a mathematical formula to produce bitcoins. The mathematical formula is freely available, so that anyone can check it.
The software is also open source, meaning that anyone can look at it to make sure that it does what it is supposed to.
What are its characteristics?
Bitcoin has several important features that set it apart from government-backed currencies.
1. It's decentralized
The bitcoin network isn’t controlled by one central authority. Every machine that mines bitcoin and processes transactions makes up a part of the network, and the machines work together. That means that, in theory, one central authority can’t tinker with monetary policy and cause a meltdown – or simply decide to take people’s bitcoins away from them, as the Central European Bank decided to do in Cyprus in early 2013. And if some part of the network goes offline for some reason, the money keeps on flowing.
2. It's easy to set up
3. It's anonymous
4. It's completely transparent
bitcoin stores details of every single transaction that ever happened in the network in a huge version of a general ledger, called the blockchain. The blockchain tells all.
If you have a publicly used bitcoin address, anyone can tell how many bitcoins are stored at that address. They just don’t know that it’s yours.
There are measures that people can take to make their activities more opaque on the bitcoin network, though, such as not using the same bitcoin addresses consistently, and not transferring lots of bitcoin to a single address.
5. Transaction fees are miniscule
6. It’s fast
7. It’s non-repudiable
Where to Buy and Sell Bitcoin?
coinbase -usa
localbitcoins Finland
BitQuick USA
CoinCorner
Bitbargain buyers.
Xapo USA
Bit coin and INDIA
India flagIndia’s central bank is said to be “watching” bitcoin. In a series of dramatic moves, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a warning about bitcoin in late December 2013, which was followed almost immediately by exchanges choosing to suspend operations. One exchange had its premises raided and another was paid a “friendly” visit by tax officials to investigate how digital currencies could be managed and taxed. Some exchanges have since re-opened for business
Source from : Economic Times
Where to Buy and Sell Bitcoin in india?
Zebpay, Unocoin & Coinsecure
Recent days how it will surge in india?
with respect of global uncertainties that began with the British referendum in June to exit the European Union and leading to a weak Chinese yuan, Trump’s win and Modi’s crackdown on untaxed money.
New users willing to experiment with the cryptocurrency as an alternative asset class. A majority of the users are millennials, of ages 18 to 35.
“Our trade volume in November touched .Rs 120 crore, up by 25% compared to October, and our revenue grew 25% as well,” said Saurabh Agarwal, cofounder of Zebpay. The Ahmedabadbased bitcoin wallet and exchange, which has raised seed funding from a few individual investors, added 50,000 new users in November, higher than its typical monthly average of 20,000 new users. Overall, Zebpay has about 250,000 users.
A bitcoin is essentially a digital token or code mimicking a virtual currency. In India, only a few companies, mostly large ecommerce firms, accept bitcoin payments, and that too as indirect transactions made through the exchanges.
So for most users, a bitcoin is an investment vehicle similar to gold. Since only a few million bitcoins are available globally, the price is high. On Tuesday, Reuters reported that bitcoin value hit a two-year high of $788.49 (about .Rs 53,210 per bitcoin) due to volatility in the Chinese stock market.
In India, the buying price is slightly higher, at Rs 55,000-57,000 per bitcoin. A couple of weeks after the demonetisation announcement on November 8, the price had surged above Rs 68,000 a unit. India has about 20 bitcoin startups, of which merely three have secured funding — ZebPay ($1 million), Unocoin ($1.5 million), and Coinsecure ($1.5 million).
Whether it is alternate to currency?
NO, HOW?
1) Not Widely Accepted
Bitcoins are still only accepted by a very small group of online merchants. This makes it unfeasible to completely rely on Bitcoins as a currency. Many govt moved against it.
2) Wallets Can Be Lost
If a hard drive crashes, or a virus corrupts data , and the wallet file is corrupted, Bitcoins have essentially been “lost”. There is nothing that can done to recover it. These coins will be forever orphaned in the system. This can bankrupt a wealthy Bitcoin investor within seconds with no way form of recovery. The coins the investor owned will also be permanently orphaned.
3) Bitcoin Valuation Fluctuates
The value of Bitcoins is constantly fluctuating according to demand. As of June 2nd 2011, one Bitcoins was valued at $9.9 on a popular bitcoin exchange site. It was valued to be less than $1 just 6 months ago. This constant fluctuation will cause Bitcoin accepting sites to continually change prices. It will also cause a lot of confusion if a refund for a product is being made. For example, if a t shirt was initially bought for 1.5 BTC, and returned a week later, should 1.5 BTC be returned, even though the valuation has gone up, or should the new amount (calculated according to current valuation) be sent? Which currency should BTC tied to when comparing valuation? These are still important questions that the Bitcoin community still has no consensus over.
4) No Buyer Protection
When goods are bought using Bitcoins, and the seller doesn’t send the promised goods, nothing can be done to reverse the transaction. This problem can be solved using a third party escrow service like ClearCoin, but then, escrow services would assume the role of banks, which would cause Bitcoins to be similar to a more traditional currency.
5) Risk of Unknown Technical Flaws
The Bitcoin system could contain unexploited flaws. As this is a fairly new system, if Bitcoins were adopted widely, and a flaw was found, it could give tremendous wealth to the exploiter at the expense of destroying the Bitcoin economy.
6) Built in Deflation
Since the total number of bitcoins is capped at 21 million, it will cause deflation. Each bitcoin will be worth more and more as the total number of Bitcoins maxes out. This system is designed to reward early adopters. Since each bitcoin will be valued higher with each passing day, the question of when to spend becomes important. This might cause spending surges which will cause the Bitcoin economy to fluctuate very rapidly, and unpredictably.
7) No Physical Form
Since Bitcoins do not have a physical form, it cannot be used in physical stores. It would always have to be converted to other currencies. Cards with Bitcoin wallet information stored in them have been proposed, but there is no consensus on a particular system. Since there would be multiple competing systems, merchants would find it unfeasible to support all Bitcoin cards, and therefore users would be forced to convert Bitcoins anyway, unless a universal system is proposed and implemented.
8) No Valuation Guarantee
Since there is no central authority governing Bitcoins, no one can guarantee its minimum valuation. If a large group of merchants decide to “dump” Bitcoins and leave the system, its valuation will decrease greatly which will immensely hurt users who have a large amount of wealth invested in Bitcoins. The decentralized nature of bitcoin is both a curse and blessing.
Here I must conclude, the sources from various channels told above information regarding that. The bitcoin will be one of the alternate to the currency not only physical but electronic.
This complicated design is not understandable. It is possible only after everyone in the world can understand the concept of design and mining. It will create again CAPITALIST kind of economy it will inject the kingdom again. The principle is based on demand, in simple terms when demand increases the value increases. It is just a dream for middle and low class people.