49. The downside of Bitcoins
Silk Road (marketplace)
online black market
Amazon.comof illegal drugs
e-Bay for drugs
On 2 October 2013, the FBI shut down Silk Road
53. •Transactions- transfer of value between Bitcoin wallets
•Digital signature: private key / seed
•Mining: distributed consensus system
•confirm waiting transactions
•enforces a chronological order
•protects the neutrality of the network
•transactions must be packed in a block that fits very strict
cryptographic rules
•individuals cannot control what is included in the block chain
•no roll back of the block chain