Thank you very much for the detailed answers. I am very pleased about the interest. I've been reading the press over the last few days. Among other things, a clear statement by Gensler from the SEC. #BitCoin ETFs are legal financial instruments, but #BitCoin itself and especially the #BitCoin network is an unleaglised platform.
He is trying to say that investors should invest in Bitcoin through investment funds, which they can manage, track and monitor all their assets, instead of buying Bitcoin directly, and the government may not be able to prevent you from using your money or force you to spend it however they want, but I see that the approval is positive, so now institutional funds. It has access to something legal, while individuals can invest in the shares of these funds or buy Bitcoin directly.
There is an overall misunderstanding here. #BitCoin is a use case for the BlockChain technology. Another use case would certainly have been possible. The idea of mapping services - hence the concept of the Proof of Work - directly between two counterparties, thus creating a value equalisation *without* monetary transactions, was the actual background to developing a coin as a transaction value, which then gives both counterparties the opportunity to trade *directly* with other counterparties. We do not need to discuss the basis of the technology and the fundamentals of eBusiness payment systems here. This is sufficiently well known today.
Of course, this idea also has a social and societal impact. Labour and services in general then belong to the person who provides them. He or she then sets the price with a counterpart. This is based on how valuable the corresponding service in return is deemed to be. In 2005, when the first ideas were developed, this was a novelty. In 1995, nobody would have believed that the Internet would become one of the biggest trading platforms and marketplaces of all time. From that point of view, sponge over it.
What we unfortunately didn't develop or underestimated in 2008 was the fact that peer-to-peer would be corrupted. In this case, this means that not everyone who wants to participate in the Bitcoin network will also provide a terminal device. Only then does the peer-to-peer infrastructure make sense. The #BitCoin itself is merely the reward for a person making a computer available to the entire infrastructure. The idea of building data centres in order to then run a business based on electricity and fossil energy suppliers, which supposedly mines this coin worth its weight in gold out of nothing, makes this idea absurd.
That is why we have decided to intervene! And to publish two still open fragments of the idea in a timely manner. Among other things, there will be a new consensus procedure "Proof of Knowledge" to give the one or other #SatoshiNakamoto fairy tale its rightful place.
Larry and Gerry, boys, get warm! It's time!