It seemed that the problem of mistrust and uncertainty in the financial system would only worsen. "How to preserve wealth, if the financial system itself collapses?"

Banks that were eventually found to be "too big to fall" were on the verge of collapse, world stock markets were ready to collapse, and many investors were losing billions of dollars every day.

In the global economic system, by November 2008, a very dangerous situation developed, which marked the beginning of the so-called Great Recession.

For example, bitkoyny absolutely impossible to forge. Users fully control their payments and can not accept unconfirmed accounts, such as when credit cards are fraudulent

Bitcoin is arranged so that it is a serious step forward in terms of ensuring the security of funds. It can also be used as an essential protection against many forms of financial crime

Bitcoin can bring significant innovation to payment systems and the benefits of these innovations are generally considered to be much overlapping their potential drawbacks.

The use of electricity for the operation of the transaction system and the security of the Bitcoin network can not be called in vain.

When two blocks are formed simultaneously, Bitcoin-miners are first dealt with the first block, but they prefer the longer chains of Bitcoin blocks at the next block selection.

With this level of inflation, prices have risen markedly every day. Owners of shops had to expose new prices for their goods every morning, and by evening they changed again.

At the end of the 20th century, Brazil had problems with inflation. For more than ten years, since about 1980, hyperinflation, sometimes more than a thousand percent a year, has destroyed the Brazilian currency - cruzeiro.

Despite technical shortcomings, Bitcoin is a powerful tool for payments, funds transfer, microfinance or circumvention of government requirements for the disclosure of personal data.

in Russia - whether they will receive the status recognized by the state or will be banned, and also how tax authorities, prosecutors and courts will behave, regulating affairs with bitcoins.

Only you can control your bitcoins, and any manipulation of your funds from outside is impossible. Information about the funds in the bank account is nothing more than a record that the bank owes you.

The first, public, you declare when creating a transaction, however, the characteristics of the transaction and the content of the bitcoin address can only be recognized with the help of a secret key.

 Bitcoin is pure mathematics and the magic of large numbers. We add to this the knowledge of cryptography - and we get a practically invulnerable currency for burglaries.

But each time the pool becomes more confusing for beginners, and the relative stability of the resource is undermined. The next hardcore was due in late November, but at the last moment everything was canceled.

Hardfork does not destroy anything: if you previously had 100 bitcoins in your wallet, this amount will not go anywhere.

Every new software, be it Bitcoin Classic, Bitcoin Unlimited or Bitcoin Gold, pretends to have an initial vision of the technology, but with each new hardcore the pool of participants becomes more and more crowded.

Can I exchange bitcoins for real money? Absolutely. To do this, it is sufficient to use any exchange service. The leading player in this market is the MtGox exchange

At the moment, every 10 minutes in the network appears 25 new bitcoins. In 2140, the total number of coins will be more than 20 million.