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IT for Financial services is356. Agenda. What is Bitcoin? A digital currency that is created and exchanged independently of any government or bank. Bitcoin is computer generated and can be converted into cash after being deposited in a virtual wallet. Digital currencies in general Why now?

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IT for Financial services is356

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  1. IT for Financial servicesis356

  2. Agenda • What is Bitcoin? • A digital currency that is created and exchanged independently of any government or bank. Bitcoin is computer generated and can be converted into cash after being deposited in a virtual wallet. • Digital currencies in general • Why now? • How does Bitcoin work? • Peer-to-peer network • Mining • Signs of a Bubble

  3. Why now? • Payment methods like cash are problematic… • Cash wears out, needs to be replaced • Not always easily traceable • Potential for counterfeit / forgery • Theft – cannot be easily deactivated • Expensive to transport, heavy, bulky • Inflation – just print more • Costly to produce • 5.7 cents for a dollar bill • 10 cents for a dollar coin • 12.5 cents for the new $100 bill • Once retired, cash must be destroyed

  4. In Cash We Trust • Why does cash work so well? • TRUST • Cash is just paper… exchangeable paper • As long as I know that I can exchange it… • Liquidity… as good as gold • Convertible into gold • Nixon Severs the Dollar from Gold: 8-15-71 1971

  5. Digital Currency • The USD is kind of digital already • You don’t have to run the printing presses just to expand the money supply • Buy back bonds, pay with digital deposit • But Bitcoin isn’t like that… • Removes the central function of a federal reserve (government) • With the full force and backing of… nobody! • How do you get Bitcoin? Exchange rate applies… (weird) • Figure out a way to move Bitcoin currency… easy • How can you increase the money supply… mine more

  6. Source: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Bitcoin Origins, October 2008

  7. Exchange Rate January 2009 – Bitcoin v0.1 announced Flat line – no activity extending all the way back to January 2009 Source: https://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=

  8. Real Time Pricing 8

  9. Bitcoin Exchanges

  10. Arbitrage Opportunities

  11. Demise of Mt. Gox MIT Technology Review

  12. Bitcoin Wallet

  13. Bitcoin – Managing Supply There will never be more than 21 million bitcoins in circulation.

  14. Bitcoin – Circulation to date…

  15. Bitcoin Mining…

  16. Bitcoin – Signs of a Bubble

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