{"id":175,"date":"2022-02-27T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aurumxchange.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2022-02-27T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T14:23:08","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aurumxchange.com\/blog\/a-beginners-guide-to-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"A beginner&#8217;s guide to Cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=300vh src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VYWc9dFqROI?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe>We live in a world where people get involved in complex financial transactions every single day. Most of us have thought about buying shares, but not everyone has taken the plunge.<\/p>\n<p>Buying shares is difficult, and it is risky. If you buy them at the wrong time, you could lose money. This can be enough to put lots of people off \u2013 particularly if they are investing for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there is a way to invest without taking on too much risk \u2013 cryptocurrency trading.<\/p>\n<p>What Is Cryptocurrency?<\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrency is digital money that can be traded online. You need a digital wallet to hold your money and make transactions with other users. You don&#8217;t need physical coins and notes to trade, which means that there is no risk of fraud or theft from carrying your money around with you \u2013 as long as you keep your digital wallet safe.<\/p>\n<p>This is a guide for beginners to cryptocurrency. While it will be a bit simplified, it will hopefully help those who are not tech-savvy or those who are unfamiliar with cryptocurrencies understand what cryptocurrency is, why it\u2019s so important, and the most important cryptocurrencies out there.<\/p>\n<p>What is Cryptocurrency?<\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrency is a digital currency that uses encryption techniques to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds. It has no physical form (like paper money) and operates solely through the Internet. Cryptocurrencies operate on a decentralized peer-to-peer network that allows users to send funds to each other without using a third party (such as PayPal). These transactions are recorded on a public ledger called blockchain, which helps ensure the integrity of each transaction.<\/p>\n<p>What is a cryptocurrency? A cryptocurrency is a digital currency, or asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to secure its transactions, to control the creation of additional units, and to verify the transfer of assets. Cryptocurrencies are classified as a subset of digital currencies and are also classified as a subset of alternative currencies and virtual currencies.<\/p>\n<p>What is crypto mining? Crypto mining is the process by which transactions are verified and added to the public ledger, known as the block chain, and also the means through which new bitcoins are released. Anyone with access to the internet and suitable hardware can participate in mining. The mining process involves compiling recent transactions into blocks and trying to solve a computationally difficult puzzle. The participant who first solves the puzzle gets to place the next block on the block chain and claim the rewards. The rewards incentivize mining and include both transaction fees collected by the miner as well as newly released bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>What is Cryptocurrency?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a digital currency that can be used to pay for goods and services. It&#8217;s like conventional money, except it&#8217;s digital, it&#8217;s not regulated by a government, and it&#8217;s incredibly difficult to counterfeit. You could sum up cryptocurrency as &#8220;money made from math,&#8221; but you&#8217;d be leaving out the bigger story of how it attempts to solve the problem of trust.<\/p>\n<p>You need some way for the people sending and receiving money to agree on what should be accepted as money. After all, why should someone accept one piece of paper rather than another? A dollar bill works because the government says so, but if you&#8217;re trading with someone you don&#8217;t know in a country you&#8217;ve never been to, how will they ever know that your dollars are worth anything?<\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrency is a digital currency that is generated through the use of encryption techniques. It is also known as virtual currency. It is a decentralized system meaning that no single institution like a bank or country controls it.<\/p>\n<p>The first cryptocurrency was Bitcoin which was created in 2009 by an anonymous person or group of people using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. Since then, many other cryptocurrencies have been introduced. They are called altcoins, short for alternative coins because they arise as alternatives to bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin allows you to send money over the internet to anyone, anywhere in the world at very low cost. This money can be converted into any currency you wish and it is safe from inflation and does not depend on any government or central bank for its value and transaction processing. Cryptocurrencies are gaining popularity day by day and more merchants are starting to accept them as payment.<\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrency is the latest trend in the money market that contains principles of cryptography to secure transactions. Cryptocurrency is a part of the process of a virtual database running in the virtual world. The identity of the actual person here cannot be identified. Also, there is no centralized authority which governs the trading of cryptocurrency. This currency is equivalent to hard gold preserved by people and the value of which is supposed to be getting increased by leaps and bounds. The digital system set by Satoshi is a decentralized one where only the miners have the right to make changes by canceling out certain parts such as blocks of the network.<\/p>\n<p>They are rewarded for their services with a token of cryptocurrency. It can be said as a form of online collective currency that can be used for payment for various types of products and services or it can also be taken as an investment tool. The technology used for developing this cryptocurrency is known as blockchain technology.<\/p>\n<p>The blockchain technology acts as a platform that allows transaction to take place between two parties efficiently in a verifiable and permanent way. What it does is it records details about every transaction including date, time, and dollar amount along with who owns it. By integrating this technology into banking operations, banks will see a considerable reduction in operating costs, greater transactional transparency<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin is a digital currency, which allows transactions to be made without the interference of a central authority. The cryptocurrency system is a peer-to-peer open-source software, meaning computers are part of a mining process for coins.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin was designed and created by an anonymous programmer, or possibly group of programmers, by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. There are various places to buy bitcoin in exchanges for another currency, with international exchangess available as well as local. Popular international Bitcoin exchangess include Bitsquare, Coinbase, and Kraken.<\/p>\n<p>According to research produced by Cambridge University in 2017, there are 2.9 to 5.8 million unique users using a cryptocurrency wallet, most of them using bitcoin. 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