At the time for this recording, Bitcoin is close to reach its highest value ever - $1,216. A few weeks earlier, it was down to $800 mostly due to the Chinese government investigating ‘cryptocurrency activities” in the country. With such a controlled Chinese Yuan, lots of Chinese people are increasingly looking for ways to move their money freely and out of the country. And a growing number of people are turning to cryptocurrency for that purpose: to protect, to move and to use their money as they please. As bitcoin has been the pioneering cryptocurrency — the first leveraging the blockchain technology, allowing cheaper, safer and faster transactions — people associate naturally the words cryptocurrency and bitcoin. However, Bitcoin has inspired lots of geek entrepreneurs to come up with a better version of Bitcoin. Some kind of bitcoin 2.0. And that’s because Bitcoin isn’t perfect. It has some major room for improvements. For example, Bitcoin network requires lots of energy (computing power & electricity) to run its network to verify transactions. It’s quite inefficient and it’s raising lots of questions on the future of the pioneering cryptocurrency. Welcome to the world of the Altcoins. Think of it this way. A cryptocurrency is like an social network. You basically only need one that most people will use. MySpace was the first dominant and successful social network in 2003–2006 — In fact, it was the #1 website in number of visitors in the US in 2006, beating both Google and Yahoo! Facebook came along and wiped out MySpace in less than a year. Will this happen to Bitcoin? Maybe. Time will tell.
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Duration: 18m 24s
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