What Makes Us Trust Money · Part 2
Gold on the Scale, Bitcoin in the Ledger
Any jeweler can weigh and test a gold ring. Anyone can download and check Bitcoin’s ledger. How each one shows it’s real, and what that checking costs.
Notes on money and trust
Every essay on Easty Notes, newest first. To read in order, choose a series.
Any jeweler can weigh and test a gold ring. Anyone can download and check Bitcoin’s ledger. How each one shows it’s real, and what that checking costs.
Bitcoin keeps a public record of who sent how much to whom, open to anyone back to its first page in 2009. A plain-language look at how it works.