Bitcoin has been on the media for a long time but it’s possible to come across a person who is not familiar with it. This crypto currency is very unique and is not affected by traditional forms of banking. Apart from Bitcoin there are other types of digital currencies that you can invest in but the former is the considered to be the best known world over. The beauty of working with bit coin is that the security is one of its own kind, the computer networks involved have to perform complex mathematical functions to verify and a record the transaction in an online ledger.
Many investments are acted by government policies but the beauty of Bitcoin is that it’s not subject to any authority at all , no bank controls its supply. The number of new Bitcoin being mined has gone down as the number of units is limited to just twenty one million , low inflation is not something to worry a Bitcoin investor. Bitcoin has impacted people’s lives differently and some stories will leave you in awe. In the early days of its inception buying a bitcoin cost you pennies but today you have to part with over six thousand dollars for the same.
One Erik Finman a twelve year old in 2011 invested all of one thousand dollars given to him by his grandmother which two years later would appreciate to one hundred thousand dollars. The young man later dropped out of school to develop his own company that he sold for three hundred Bitcoins. Another amazing story is that of one Kristoffer Koch who invested twenty seven dollars in Bitcoin that would later be worth eight hundred and eighty six thousand dollars, the funny thing is he completely forgot about his investments until he saw Bitcoin on the news later on.
While some people have gone off to make mouthwatering amounts of money through Bitcoin some have experienced the complete opposite. One of the loss stories is that of Jered Kenna who was an early adopter of Bitcoin, he bought the coins when they cost twenty cents per coin, however hackers got to his email and got access to his wallet and erased his computer taking with them 800 coins. Another mind blowing loss story is one where a man offered ten thousand bitcoins delivery, delivery, back then the ten thousand coins were thirty dollars’ worth so it was no big deal but today maybe the man would have never made such deal because they are worth eighty two million dollars.