Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin, titled his original white paper on the subject "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." This description touches. By contrast, credit card transactions entail the buyer effectively authorizing the seller to 'pull' a payment from their account, passing through several financial intermediaries in the process. For example, a typical Visa transaction involves four parties: the merchant, the acquirer (the financial institution that enables payments to the merchant), the issuer (the card holder's bank), and the individual cardholder.When making a bitcoin transaction, it is not necessary to provide personal identification information such as your name and address. Bitcoin transactions are made using an anonymous alphanumeric address that change with every transaction and a private key. Payments can also be made on mobile devices by using quick response (QR) codes.