Bitcoins: What they are and how to use them
By David Mint
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What is a Bitcoin? Why is it important? Knowing the answers to these two simple questions may determine the fortunes of an entire generation. In this brief volume, we dedicate the first section to a brief exploration of the phenomenon of the Bitcoin and its advantages and disadvantages as a medium of exchange and store of value. We also briefly explore the moral implications of chasing the monetary premium that the Bitcoin has increasingly come to represent.
Having arrived at the conclusion that the Bitcoin has a place in conducting trade, we dedicate the second section to what we call a roadmap to Bitcoin acceptance in which we guide the user to the online tools necessary to begin to conduct business in Bitcoins.
This guide is as practical as it is non-technical. For technical explanations of what the Bitcoin is, we recommend briefly reading the current Wikipedia entry on Bitcoins. However, technical explanations alone cannot adequately describe Bitcoin's usefulness in conducting trade. For there is one reason and one reason only that the Bitcoin, which is nothing more than a series of hash tags, mere zeros and ones encrypted and stored on digital media, has soared in value in recent weeks against the world's national currencies.
David Mint
David is happily married with two children and lives in Portland, Oregon where he has pondered monetary theory and other less pressing but infinitely more entertaining matters since 2006. He has travelled extensively in the United States and has resided in Nebraska, Colorado, Spain, and Bolivia. He has a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Colorado State University and an MBA from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain with over 18 years of experience in Accounting, Finance, Treasury, and Information Systems Consulting positions both in the United States and Spain. He is the creator of The Mint, which presents fresh ideas on Economics, Monetary Theory, and Politics. You can read The Mint at http://www.davidmint.com and you may contact him at [email protected].
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Bitcoins - David Mint
Bitcoins: What they are and how to use them
A Beginner’s Guide to adopting the Gold Standard in Digital Currencies
A Brief Primer on Digital Currency and how to make use of it
By David Mint
Published by The Wilcox Trading Company
Copyright 2013 The Wilcox Trading Company
Portland, Oregon
Smashwords edition: April 2013
ISBN:
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Cover design by David Mint at WDesign
Adaptation of a Bitcoin logo created by Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the originator(s) of the Bitcoin genesis block.
Table of Contents
Bitcoins: An Introduction
The EU's Gift to Satoshi
SECTION I - WHAT ARE BITCOINS?
Are Bitcoins Money? The concept of digital currency and the desperate need for a Free Money supply
Are Bitcoins Money?
The Difficulty of Bitcoin Denominated Debt
Mining: The Bitcoin Validation Process
Competing Digital Currencies: Bitcoin's Achilles Heel
The People's Money Supply
Silver for Bitcoins, a trade for Digital Sound Money
SECTION II: How to get Started Accepting and Trading Bitcoins
Step 1 - Establish a Bitcoin wallet
Step 2: Employing the Bitcoin address
Step 3: Integrate the ability to accept Bitcoins in your online shopping cart
Step 4 (Optional): Purchase Bitcoins
Step 5 (Optional): Sell Bitcoins
Step 6 (Optional): Create an account with a larger Bitcoin exchange
Step 7: Bitcoin Acceptance for Ebay, Amazon, and other third party selling platforms
Conclusion
APPENDIX A: Understanding the Current Bitcoin Crazy Train and one's reaction to it: A test of character
About the Author
Bitcoins: An introduction
What is a Bitcoin? Why is it important? Knowing the answers to these two simple questions may determine the fortunes of an entire generation. In this brief volume, we dedicate the first section to a brief exploration of the phenomenon of the Bitcoin and its advantages and disadvantages as a medium of exchange and store of value. We also briefly explore the moral implications of chasing the monetary premium that the Bitcoin has increasingly come to represent.
Having arrived at the conclusion that the Bitcoin has a place in conducting trade, we dedicate the second section to what we call a roadmap to Bitcoin acceptance in which we guide the user to the online tools necessary to begin to conduct business in Bitcoins.
This guide is as practical as it is non-technical. For technical explanations