The how and why of buying bitcoin

The how and why of buying bitcoin

PBS NewsHour

InläsarePBS NewsHour
Längd7 min
Språken
FörlagNewsHour Productions
ISBN9781987113921

The basic idea of bitcoin is simple: Instead of a financial institution holding a bank ledger, a chain of computers linked through the internet are all using the same software to record and verify every transaction. But how can a cryptocurrency be worth anything in the first place? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.