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Bitcoin— What Is It and How Does It Work?

  BITCOIN— a familiar name nowadays getting in the spotlight more and more with each passing year. If you have heard of it before, you know this much that bitcoin is a digital currency. But how does a digital currency work? Or what is the use of it when we already have digital banking? In today's blog I'm going to explain the basics in the simplest term possible.  First things first— we need to know how currency works to understand how it can be so much in an abstract form i.e. digital form. Let's look at the history of transaction.  At the beginning of civilization, people would exchange goods for goods in return and thus obtain what was necessary for them. This system had its limitations, so later in the history people  moved onto using metal coins (gold, silver) to buy stuffs. Since these materials are precious to people's standard and can't be obtained easily, they worked well as currency. However, carrying a good amount of coins everywhere was troublesome and s...

*Random Realizations* [Thoughts]

  Growing up is all about having eye-opening realizations about different stuffs. Realization about ourselves, the world around us and our dynamics with people. Here are some of the realizations I had in the past few months after going through the trial for a much longer period of time. Most of them can't be generalized since they they are solely my point of view, so you are recommended to take them with a pinch of salt! Saying "I don't care anymore" when no one's asked you very much means you still do care I wonder if anyone has ever grown up without being emotionally hurt by people around him/her. At one point we start feeling stoic. We keep telling ourselves or whoever willing to hear that we no longer care if someone hurts us, betrays us or tramples us down. There's a hint of monastic coolness in this manner, probably that's why we never get tired of proving that we REALLY don't care. But come to think of it. If we really didn't care, we wouldn...