Originally Posted by
billygoat
Not really a fiat currency. Fiat money is currency which derives its value from government regulation or law. I don't know what bitcoins would be classified as other than digital currency.
Bitcoins, Dodgcoins, etc.. are considered cryptocurrency because their online only. Heck any online game that lets you convert dollars into virtual coin is cryptocurrency. I dabbled with it a few years ago but not worth getting into. Heck of a learning curve and as Alloy2 said, will end eventually.
Bitcoin itself has had more falls then rises from "banks" being hacked to the owner of the then largest bitcoin bank going out of business, not refunding anyone, and moved to Japan for amnesty screwing alot of people out of alot of money. To make bitcoins you have to mine for them(ie: your computer uses software to find hashes) with high-end graphics cards or ASIC hardware. Every time a hash is found, the difficulty of finding the next hash goes up. I remember seeing a guys setup one time that had 20" video cards set up in a 10x10 room to mine bitcoins. This of course in turn, saw the price of these cards go up because to video card mfgrs saw it that a bunch of people bought their cards. Nowadays you need dedicated ASIC hardware to mine and you might get a fraction of a coin.
I understand the dynamics of it and while the ratio to USD is still high, it's still high risk and not worth getting into now because of difficulty. If say, I was asked 15 years ago, it would've been worth it then because the difficulty was lower and you could get away with mining on a basic graphics card or CPU.
There, now SMF has an entry of what Bitcoin is lol.
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