The future of Money

cryptocurrency (or cryptocurrency) is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange using cryptography to secure the transactions and to control the creation of additional units of the currency. Cryptocurrencies are a subset of alternative currencies, or specifically of digital currencies.

Since anyone can create a block, there needs to be a way that everyone on the blockchain can reach consensus, deciding together what block accurately represents recent transactions across the network. Without a central authority, trust comes from creating consensus algorithms that are very, very hard to cheat.

Helicopter money, cash restrictions and negative interest rates: "We live in an experiment that has not existed in the past 3,000 years," says financial expert and author Markus Miller. Savers and consumers need more security. And they exist.