Such a shape – an open network of unrelated nodes following code-based rules to agree on and locally record valid transactions without a main leader – results in Bitcoin’s key properties: Bitcoin is decentralized with no central point of control; trustless as nodes fulfil open-source software; censorship resistant with transaction history stored locally on thousands of unrelated machines; immutable as documented transactions cannot be changed; and permissionless as anyone can partake in the network. Additionally, Bitcoin utilizes new, internet and blockchain-based fence by trains, rather than existing, antiquated financial rails, and its technology forms the building blocks for later blockchains that add programmability and chancy computation to the decentralized ledger. This makes the technology underlying Bitcoin the basis for novel use cases like particularity, ownership, governance, computation and more, and enables the democratization of value exchange, removal of rent-extracting intermediaries, and establishment of new paradigms circa ownership and governance.
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