MBR: Why bitcoin and not all these other cryptocurrencies? It also means that the bitcoin price has been trending up over time as new buyers see the value of Bitcoin’s fixed supply and the utility of its global payments network. This fixed supply of bitcoins means that the bitcoin price is highly volatile, because in a normal market the supply of a good would adjust with the price. At that point no new bitcoins will be created and there will only be a total of 21 million bitcoins.Ĭurrently there are almost 18 million bitcoins, so 80% of the bitcoins that will ever exist have already been mined. These halvings are part of the protocol rules of Bitcoin: they are programmed to occur every four years, until the year 2140. In 2016 it halved again to 12.5 bitcoins. In 2012 the rate of new bitcoins being mined halved to 25 bitcoins. When Bitcoin first started in 2009, 50 bitcoins were created every ten minutes. PR: Miners are incentivized by the network with newly-created bitcoins. This enables the Bitcoin network to be highly decentralized: the protocol rules are jointly enforced (and thus determined) by a large community of people around the world.
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It’s important to note that while miners do consume a lot of energy, the node software can be run on normal computers and consumes less electricity than your web browser. The first to find a correct block wins the reward and all the fees paid by the transactions inside it then all the miners start over. This job is done by the miners, who use specialised hardware to compete against each other. To prevent participants from spending the same bitcoins twice, the transactions are grouped together in a block and timestamped approximately every ten minutes. Nodes verify that transactions (sending and receiving bitcoins) follow the protocol rules, and reject the ones that don’t. You can run a node that connects to other nodes over the internet. Bitcoin is a protocol, its rules are automatically enforced by software that can be run by anyone. For example, when playing a sport, the rules of the game would be the protocol.
Pierre Rochard (PR): A protocol is a set of rules that participants agree to. Can you explain a bit about the software to us folks that can’t code? Morgen Rochard (MBR): Bitcoin has two aspects to it that make it unique - software and economics.
I am fortunate to be married to Pierre Rochard for many, many reasons, two of them being his immense knowledge about bitcoin and cryptocurrency, as well as this exclusive interview he gave me! Pierre is a talented software engineer who cohosts the Noded Podcast and has a very active twitter account ( focused on bitcoin.
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