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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
by
Rocky Raga
on 10/11/2020, 11:52:22 UTC
Bitcoin Cash makes money work for you. Pay people fast, send money abroad basically for free, and store savings securely—all without middlemen controlling your funds.

Introduction:

Commerce on the Internet has bch price prediction come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model. Completely non-reversible transactions are not really possible, since financial institutions cannot avoid mediating disputes.

Transactions:

The problem of course is the payee can't verify that one of the owners did not double-spend the coin. A common solution is to introduce a trusted central authority, or mint, that checks every transaction for double spending. After each transaction, the coin must be returned to the mint to issue a new coin, and only coins issued directly from the mint are trusted not to be double-spent.

Timestamp Server:

The solution we propose begins with a timestamp server. A timestamp server works by taking a hash of a block of items to be timestamped and widely publishing the hash, such as in a newspaper or Usenet post [2-5].

Conclusion:

We have proposed a system for bitcoin cash price prediction electronic transactions without relying on trust. We started with the usual framework of coins made from digital signatures, which provides strong control of ownership, but is incomplete without a way to prevent double-spending.