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Two types of bitcoin exchanges are in use: peer-to-peer and regular. Regular bitcoin exchanges use an order book to match, buy, and sell orders between people. However, neither the buyer nor the seller has any idea who the other party is, and this provides all users with a certain level of anonymity and privacy protection.

There is more to a bitcoin wallet than just the address itself. It also contains the public and private key for each of your bitcoin addresses. Your bitcoin private key is a randomly generated string (numbers and letters), allowing bitcoins to be spent. A private key is always mathematically related to the bitcoin wallet address, but is impossible to reverse engineer thanks to a strong encryption code base.

With bitcoin, trust has to work on both sides. Even though you as the user are always in control of your own finances, you still have to trust the rest of the bitcoin network to not drop off the face of the earth tomorrow. The chances of bitcoin disappearing are so slim that it isn't something you should worry about.

Bitcoin is changing the way people think about money by planting a seed of doubt in people's minds — in a positive and thought-provoking way. Mind you, given the financial crises over the past decade, it's understandable that some people are trying to come up with new and creative solutions for a better economy.

Bitcoin is often referred to as an investment vehicle, even though that term is thrown around quite loosely by many people. In the early days of bitcoin, people would buy up cheap coins in the hopes of not only growing the network by giving out free BTC, but also because the price per coin would hopefully increase.

Bitcoin mining is a slightly misleading name. No one swings a pickaxe into rough stones in order to find additional bitcoins. Bitcoin mining actually means adding more bitcoins to the digital currency ecosystem. There will be a total of 21 million bitcoin in circulation by 2140. So, how do new bitcoins come into existence?

Bitcoin is a financial tool that carries risks just like any other payment method or currency does. However, with bitcoin, those risks are slightly different from traditional currencies and payments. Part of that comes in the form of a rather volatile price, but then again, any local currency fluctuates on a daily basis.

Altcoins are also known as alternative currencies. These are bitcoin clones, bitcoin rivals (boo, hiss!). There are well over 4,000 different altcoins in existence. If you do not like to trade or speculate on the bitcoin against fiat currency markets, you could trade against altcoins instead.Altcoins seek to improve on the ideas bitcoin represents.

One of the first things you should keep in mind when you consider storing your bitcoins on an exchange platform is that it involves quite a lot of security risks. It goes against the very ideology of bitcoin to use middlemen and be dependent on centralized services and platforms. And even though these exchanges deal in decentralized digital currency, the platforms themselves, like banks, still represent central points of failure, which makes them incredibly vulnerable to attack.