https://vo.rs/tags/blockchain/Blockchain - Tag - vo.rsHugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:35:47 +0000https://vo.rs/story/what-is-bitcoin/<p>Strip away the price charts, the hype cycles and the people shouting about it on the internet, and Bitcoin is a genuinely clever answer to a narrow technical question: how do you let strangers who do not trust each other agree on who owns what, without a bank or a government in the middle to keep the books? For all the noise around it, that is the whole idea. Everything else — the mining, the wallets, the fixed supply — is machinery built to make that one thing work. This is my attempt to explain what is actually going on, without the evangelism and without the doom, so that whatever you decide to think about Bitcoin, you are at least thinking about the real thing.</p>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:35:47 +0000