What you must know before you invest in Bitcoin?(买卖比特币须知)

If you want to invest in Bitcoin, there are  some fundamentals about this commodity that you must know.

Without a firm belief of the followings, it would be better for you to avoid this commodity.

First of all, you must treat Bitcoin as a commodity. It is not a currency because there is no promise there. There is no support to it other than supply and demand. What value is given to it depends on how you see it such as you value an ounce of gold or one carat of diamond or a piece of jade. Bitcoin is not tangible but a cyber concept of trust. Over a time span of 100 years from now, the systems will create to a maximum of 21 million Bitcoins which are being discovered very slowly by a group of people called miners who are also volunteer validators of transactions. The miners only follow system discipline to validate transactions and they will be rewarded with Bitcoin if they do them right. But they have no obligations to ensure the transactions are correct.

Secondly, in any deal (that is transaction) , there is only two parties involved namely a sender of Bitcoin and a recipient of Bitcoin. There is no third party witnessing what is happening, although all communications are encrypted by the system. In other words, if the sender and recipient are involved in a dispute about a transaction, there is no way of showing evidence to prove who is right and who is wrong. It is just like a sender passing cash (such as a stack of bank notes) to a recipient who issues no receipt.

Thirdly, you must have good faith in the Bitcoin transaction which happens as follows.

There is a general ledger system called the Blockchain which records all transactions in encrypted form. This is the only book keeping system which sequentially records all transactions from genesis to the present. It is supposed to be very robust such that nobody can break into it to alter the already committed  transactions. Any transaction will be committed to the Blockchain after 6 miners have validated it and not before that. On one hand, we can say that nobody owns this Blockchain because there are many copies of Blcokchain scattered and stored in different computers called nodes in different parts of the world. On the other hand, we can also say that everybody owns it because anybody can download the Blockchain. As long as Bitcoin exists, the size of the Blockchain will grow forever. You must trust that there is no mutation in this growth.

Finally, there are already copycat systems out in market such as Litcoin. People will gradually learn more about this relatively new cyber product. So, the mystery will soon be over.

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