Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin generated tons of stories this past year. If you're unacquainted with blockchain tech or are still building some extent of view, let me make a case for revolution. We trust our largest retailers to satisfy our purchases to deliver goods and services. We trust our banks will ensure our account balance is correct and transfers are verified and freed from fraud. The systems these companies have in situ build our trust. for instance, regulations, anti-fraud systems, and services that verify transactions all play a task in ensuring the business is conducted above board. Mastercard companies are a selected example of a third party that charges a fee on each purchase to verify and settle the credit line. Overall, each of those parties acts as middlemen and supply their services for a fee on each transaction.

World wide retail sales are quite USD 20 trillion annually, and gross world product (GWP) is over $100 trillion. So enormous numbers of deals and transactions use mediators and their verification services to run trusted businesses. Because of the cost of doing business, we accept that these intermediaries extract fees on many trillions of transactions to curb fraud and maintain consumer faith. Those costs creep into the economy, driving up living expenses and, therefore, the prices for goods and services.

But what would happen if there have been cheaper or faster ways to verify deals in our economy? If substitutes existed, the savings would be within the trillions of dollars. for instance, online payment gateways earn many billions by adding quite 2.9% on each transaction. There's also the value of lost time. Middlemen all add days and weeks of delays in the land, loan approvals, or license renewals. Cutting the prices placed on every deal and order within the economy would return incredible profits to businesses and disrupt the way we engage in commerce. Injecting savings within the trillions would kick-starter growth within the global economy larger than what anybody government or company could do independently.

There are a finite number of coins earned through solving computational puzzles or purchasing them from somebody else. Someone with the answer to a puzzle can prove their ownership of a coin because their proof is recorded within the underlying blockchain network. Participants within the network cryptographically verify the identity and, therefore, the integrity of every other's proofs to ensure who owns which coins.

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