http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-ethereum-2017-6I love a good mainstream article about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, the Blockchain, etc. And my joy comes from reading about this great thing in the mainstream forum as well as seeing how much of the concept the article confuses or explains inaccurately.
This article has a few great misconceptions, can you find them?
I'll start us off:
Bitcoins and Ether tokens are called cryptocurrencies because they can be only be bought and sold digitally, are used to pay for things, and fall outside of the control of central banks or other government entities.
FALSE! Such currencies are called "cryptocurrencies" because of the cryptography technology employed in the process of validating transactions and unlocking block rewards. Cryptography is the idea employed to ensure that transactions don't require a central authority to verify that they are real!
Ok, you next...what did you find...?