Quote from: joniboini on July 10, 2021, 10:49:09 AM

You need to differentiate between bitcoin and blockchain. What you mean by the database is the blockchain itself. It has been discussed many times though, so I suggest you research more about it. Saying that Bitcoin is a database is misleading imo.

Here, I will continue to explain my point of view. When Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, he did not propose a separate blockchain concept. The term blockchain does not appear in Bitcoin's white paper. What he described is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. So, in my opinion, Bitcoin is a system that consists of different parts of the entire Bitcoin network. They constitute Bitcoin as a whole, rather than considering Bitcoin as an independent currency. On the basis of this view, I regard Bitcoin as a kind of database. This is my most basic view of Bitcoin. Blockchain is just a technology extracted from the foundation of Bitcoin technology after the later generations studied the technical principles of Bitcoin.

Quote from: Itty Bitty on July 10, 2021, 08:34:06 AM

You wrote "It also provides an immutable record of value transactions"

But when Satoshi, and the first few people on the network sent bitcoins to each other in 2009/2010, they had no monetary value.

If you are going to be an educator of bitcoin and write many articles, please explain how bitcoin went from being valueless, to being worth something, so we can understand (but writing someone gave someone else 10,000 btc for 2 pizzas is not a complete enough answer).

Thanks for your question. We may need a lot of words if we want to thoroughly explain this issue. Here, I try to explain my understanding as simply as possible. How did Bitcoin go from valueless to valuable. When Bitcoin was first born, few people knew Bitcoin, and even fewer people knew the technical principles of Bitcoin.
But when Bitcoin is getting more and more people's attention, its technical principles are constantly being studied. At the same time, the technical principles of Bitcoin have withstood various tests. No one can tamper with the data in the Bitcoin ledger, no one can steal the Bitcoin private key, etc. In this way, more and more people believe in Bitcoin. At this time Bitcoin begins to have value.