But how does bitcoin actually work?

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3Blue1Brown

3Blue1Brown

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@3blue1brown
@3blue1brown 4 жыл бұрын
If you see comments here about investing or brokers, they are scams. Videos about cryptocurrencies, evidently including ones that are just about the underlying technology/math, are hotbeds for attracting nefarious actors preying on the impressionable. Also, hi! If you’re new to this channel, most of it is about visualizing math. I get it, you probably landed here searching for how BTC works, not to spend your afternoon getting pulled into learning about, say, prime numbers or problem-solving, but if you have a moment take a look at the rest of the channel, you may enjoy what you find.
@samuelluce8286
@samuelluce8286 4 жыл бұрын
I'd recommend not just reporting, but also replying to them, explaining to any potential readers how their advertisement is a scam. Commenting is quick, and could save somebody hundreds of dollars! :)
@rjleykassya1931
@rjleykassya1931 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Lisa
@caden5173
@caden5173 4 жыл бұрын
Wow I’m already seeing scams scrolling through the replies to this lmao.
@rolanddennis791
@rolanddennis791 4 жыл бұрын
I appreciate your efforts toward my account, I give it a try but I wasn't regretting it at least
@rolanddennis791
@rolanddennis791 4 жыл бұрын
@Eric Martins yeah, you're right
@pulsar2000B
@pulsar2000B 3 жыл бұрын
"I'm still confused, but on a higher level!"
@scottlane6353
@scottlane6353 3 жыл бұрын
Me too. My confusion is at a much higher level after seeing and grokking this video. So, I'm grateful for that.
@ben251
@ben251 3 жыл бұрын
that's a really nice way of phrasing things
@awd7477
@awd7477 3 жыл бұрын
i searched alot information and already know how it works before watching this video :D
@awd7477
@awd7477 3 жыл бұрын
@@themayanksingh i profited alot with it
@datascience2254
@datascience2254 3 жыл бұрын
Confusion is at that level that , it's rare to find someone get it
@Charlie-rh8od
@Charlie-rh8od 3 жыл бұрын
When he said “I’m looking at you Charlie” I got chills
@beomon3449
@beomon3449 3 жыл бұрын
lol
@jacobhall1324
@jacobhall1324 3 жыл бұрын
Pay them back CHARLIE!!!
@Cethavi
@Cethavi 3 жыл бұрын
Charlie, you still owe me $100 😠
@dogeusR
@dogeusR 3 жыл бұрын
Charlie. Pay the man his $100
@dirkus3722
@dirkus3722 3 жыл бұрын
😒
@HR-qy3gf
@HR-qy3gf 3 жыл бұрын
This is the clearest video I’ve ever seen, and I still don’t get it.
@jackfrederiksen7979
@jackfrederiksen7979 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@ganondorfchampin
@ganondorfchampin 3 жыл бұрын
I think the first thing to get down is the notion of decentralized ledgers. An understanding of where the actual bitcoins are in the whole process is vital to understanding what is going on. Everything else is just applying cryptography to deal with the various security problems that these decentralized ledgers would otherwise have.
@iliketurtles2993
@iliketurtles2993 3 жыл бұрын
Acctually tho wtf
@yoelhaile1683
@yoelhaile1683 3 жыл бұрын
loki
@LTCAproductions
@LTCAproductions 3 жыл бұрын
Most explanations I’ve heard are the same regurgitation of simple analogies with a twist of their own life story but what I want to know is the nuts and bolts of the whole operation. That’s what has been annoying
@justinliu6068
@justinliu6068 2 жыл бұрын
17:30 block creators 17:51 block reward 18:29 mining 19:10 decentralized consensus
@ultimatechad8738
@ultimatechad8738 2 жыл бұрын
Danke
@zuccca
@zuccca 2 жыл бұрын
Literally the best explanation I have ever seen on this subject. Thank you 3B1B.
@BambaZillah
@BambaZillah 6 жыл бұрын
You have no idea how much I've tried to find an article or video actually explaining how cryptocurrencies work. Everyone else just goes around with analogies. They probably don't understand fully themselves. Thanks man.
@erdemmemisyazici3950
@erdemmemisyazici3950 5 жыл бұрын
6:20 it's not that huge a number giving current computing power. Not to mention there is no global standard any of this is based on. As soon as 256 bit hash collisions come into the public view like it did for SHA-1 just a few years ago the ledger will start suffering from fake transactions. Then you might as well hire people to watch these transactions manually. Maybe get some type of insurance on losses. Then maybe realize that all vulneribilities from the hardware layer to the software layer means you can lose all your money so setup a system to ensure the key exchange is secure, like a network of quantum key exchanges. After all this maybe BitCoin and the like can be safer, you know... *like a bank.*
@erdemmemisyazici3950
@erdemmemisyazici3950 5 жыл бұрын
@@kianasheibani1708 And if you could calculate 52 quintillion hashes per second?
@andyb6626
@andyb6626 5 жыл бұрын
@@erdemmemisyazici3950 I believe you don't really know what you are talking about.
@erdemmemisyazici3950
@erdemmemisyazici3950 5 жыл бұрын
@@andyb6626 Okay.
@KnakuanaRka
@KnakuanaRka 4 жыл бұрын
Erdem Memisyazici I’m pretty sure 52 quintillion hashes per second is slower than the Planck time Bijan gave you (about 10^43 hashes per second, compared to your 5.2*10^19), so you would take even longer.
@dhoomketu731
@dhoomketu731 2 жыл бұрын
It's an extremely information dense lecture. You have to watch portions of it again and again to grasp the underlying concepts. But once you've finished it, you feel so damn confident.
@brands2131
@brands2131 2 жыл бұрын
Yet this 26min video only scratches the surface. To actually understand the data structure of a transaction, and a block, to understand the stack based scripting language of Bitcoin, and so on, goes way beyond this video.
@billkidney2364
@billkidney2364 3 жыл бұрын
I like that Alice, Bob, and Charlies pk's were 01000001, 01000010, and 01000011, which are just A, B, and C in ASCII. Cute.
@blujay2084
@blujay2084 3 жыл бұрын
Nice catch.
@rensbos4176
@rensbos4176 3 жыл бұрын
Wow how can you be such a computer nerd (i mean as a compliment)
@en7998
@en7998 3 жыл бұрын
Nice! Did a lot of work with ascii recently but didnt catch it
@MonkOrMan
@MonkOrMan 3 жыл бұрын
I knew there'd be something like that
@eboubaker3722
@eboubaker3722 3 жыл бұрын
@@en7998 they all have the same start of 010000 you just remember the last digits
@6s6
@6s6 3 жыл бұрын
Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Ohm are in a car They get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him "Do you know how fast you were going?" "No, but I know exactly where I am" Heisenberg replies. The cop says "You were doing 55 in a 35." Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts "Great! Now I'm lost!" The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says "Do you know you have a dead cat back here?" "We do now, asshole!" shouts Schrodinger. The cop moves to arrest them. Ohm resists.
@OsvaldoBayerista
@OsvaldoBayerista 3 жыл бұрын
underrated
@valeriomomigliano37
@valeriomomigliano37 3 жыл бұрын
Underrated
@ekxo1126
@ekxo1126 3 жыл бұрын
No one was expecting this comment, everybody liked it
@tetesperm
@tetesperm 3 жыл бұрын
someone explain
@joost6994
@joost6994 3 жыл бұрын
This is more confusing than the actual video wtf
@dimethyltryptamine8233
@dimethyltryptamine8233 3 жыл бұрын
I cant wait for the english version of this video bro looks really good.
@endrs2568
@endrs2568 3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@christianifashe3591
@christianifashe3591 3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@notsojharedtroll23
@notsojharedtroll23 3 жыл бұрын
☠☠☠
@shaunrobbins5902
@shaunrobbins5902 3 жыл бұрын
Too much drugs bro
@TheNibiru720
@TheNibiru720 3 жыл бұрын
I missed the joke?
@Hynasek
@Hynasek 2 жыл бұрын
5 years later and I still comeback to this Blockchain explanation to check if my understanding, love it
@MrBauchnabbel
@MrBauchnabbel 6 жыл бұрын
"To call it astronomicly large would be giving way too much credit to astonomy." My new favourite quote :)
@neelamverma8167
@neelamverma8167 4 жыл бұрын
No u
@blackcat5771
@blackcat5771 4 жыл бұрын
@@neelamverma8167 You ruined everything.
@SheenylHassan
@SheenylHassan 4 жыл бұрын
Has potential to be a good insult...
@jaw0449
@jaw0449 4 жыл бұрын
As a trained astronomer, I found this hilarious
@Nylspider
@Nylspider 4 жыл бұрын
Make this ur status on AoPS.com
@izlebakalm860
@izlebakalm860 2 жыл бұрын
*The future is now , you all need to start somewhere no matter how small*
@QuestionEverythingButWHY
@QuestionEverythingButWHY 3 жыл бұрын
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.” ― Mark Twain
@segmentsAndCurves
@segmentsAndCurves 3 жыл бұрын
Oh, didn't see you for a while.
@joeybordeaux7718
@joeybordeaux7718 3 жыл бұрын
Very true!! Its been quite a while?
@annabellewood8887
@annabellewood8887 3 жыл бұрын
cryptocurrency is the future, Investing in it now will be the wisest thing to do especially with the current rise!!!
@segmentsAndCurves
@segmentsAndCurves 3 жыл бұрын
@@annabellewood8887 Still too soon to say anything.
@georgepatel9942
@georgepatel9942 3 жыл бұрын
@@annabellewood8887 yeah its really profitable!!!
@CaravaggioRoma
@CaravaggioRoma 4 жыл бұрын
You have a natural gift for breaking down complex topics into elementary concepts and rearrange them to make it easy for the ordinary educated person to understand. The graphics is awesome.
@hookbeak3516
@hookbeak3516 4 жыл бұрын
I'm old school I spent five minutes shy of two hours writing notes & drawing some of the diagrams to try my best to understand, I'm a home schooled researcher & I'm certainly not academic enough to say I'm a economist. The trust is to place your money & patiently wait - the excitement is watching that initial fee grow. I've never done this before.
@harshchikorde9495
@harshchikorde9495 7 жыл бұрын
please make a video on transforms (laplace ,fourier,z- transforms) as these will help many engineering students.Many people take it for granted very little is known about its physical meaning,there are subjects in engineering based on transforms like signals and systems, signal processing, control theory your vedios will surely make a difference in understanding these subjects.
@VikasVJois
@VikasVJois 7 жыл бұрын
Harsh Shankar +1 to that
@itr00ow93
@itr00ow93 7 жыл бұрын
Harsh Shankar yes laplace!
@gian3458
@gian3458 7 жыл бұрын
+
@theoptimist3246
@theoptimist3246 7 жыл бұрын
Yes pls
@pumpkinman681
@pumpkinman681 7 жыл бұрын
I need this
@andrewwhitaker2238
@andrewwhitaker2238 2 жыл бұрын
I’m not smart
@geegee3702
@geegee3702 3 күн бұрын
+
@codesymphony
@codesymphony 3 жыл бұрын
"alice sent bob $10? ok let me just run my 1000 rtx 3080s for 10 hours to verify.. yep you're good"
@theopantamis9184
@theopantamis9184 3 жыл бұрын
You can verify the transaction with a RPi, mining is only needed if you want to create blocks, anyone can check if his transaction is in a block or not.
@deoTS1
@deoTS1 3 жыл бұрын
@@theopantamis9184 i know, right? even with incredibly helpful explanations like this video, many people won't move past memes and gut feelings into a deeper understanding.
@vishank7
@vishank7 3 жыл бұрын
@@theopantamis9184 I haven't yet understood the video fully so this might be a dumb question: If there are multiple miners trying to put together a block and only one guy is successful in making one (by reaching the right amount of zeros in the hash), doesn't the work performed by all other miners go to waste?
@EebstertheGreat
@EebstertheGreat 3 жыл бұрын
@@vishank7 All of the work is "wasted" in the sense that it doesn't actually do anything useful. Its only purpose is to make it cost time and money to make a new block. As more people start mining, each block requires more effort to mine and gives less reward. It is a lot like gold mining in that way. If you are mining gold, all the digging you do that doesn't lead to finding any new gold is wasted. But usually there is no way to find gold without wasting a lot of time on misses. The more people mine, the deeper you have to go to find new gold, and the less you usually find. The difference between bitcoin mining and gold mining is that gold has some real utility outside of its value as currency, while bitcoins have no other utility. However, most gold ends up locked away in vaults anyway, so I think it's a reasonably good analogy.
@mikemian
@mikemian 3 жыл бұрын
To verify requires almost no work, that is to read the block chain to find the transaction. Work is required to validate the transaction, that is to write it to the blockchain. A transaction will typically be written to the blockchain with thousands of others.
@shikhanshu
@shikhanshu 6 жыл бұрын
this is the ONLY video in the entire world which actually describes what the heck is going on! hats off to your amazing work
@bhyvhggyvuhuh4371
@bhyvhggyvuhuh4371 3 жыл бұрын
Stank
@financegrowthjourney9002
@financegrowthjourney9002 3 жыл бұрын
This video is about to start getting a lot of views.
@sahilvedpathak9046
@sahilvedpathak9046 3 жыл бұрын
Bcoz of dogecoin?
@ActiveDodger
@ActiveDodger 3 жыл бұрын
Dogecoin commentary via a certain tech reviewer brought me here even though he is emphatically NOT a financial adviser 😂
@divakarvetri2232
@divakarvetri2232 3 жыл бұрын
@@ActiveDodger marquee??😂😂😂
@sahilvedpathak9046
@sahilvedpathak9046 3 жыл бұрын
@@ActiveDodger same lol, came after mkbhd video
@BFX4REAL
@BFX4REAL 3 жыл бұрын
Why
@duytrinh3367
@duytrinh3367 2 жыл бұрын
4 years later and this is still the only video I need when looking for explanation for the protocol behind Bitcoin…
@sososong3438
@sososong3438 2 жыл бұрын
ur memory cut in half every 4 years 22:50
@vineetasingh145
@vineetasingh145 2 жыл бұрын
@@sososong3438 mine got cut half just after watching this video 🙂
@baltakatei
@baltakatei 2 жыл бұрын
Because Bitcoin is very slow to change. ☺️
@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt
@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt 2 жыл бұрын
Shytcoin is constantly being hacked and ripped off for hundreds of millions of dollars... absolutely useless stupid trash idea adopted by the dumbest people on errrf
@peterchua7972
@peterchua7972 2 жыл бұрын
the
@Going2Frys
@Going2Frys 3 жыл бұрын
Alice is the one buying all your GTX 30X cards.
@zawardo111
@zawardo111 3 жыл бұрын
😂
@B15HOP
@B15HOP 3 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised Visa is compared to Bitcoin. It makes me believe Alice is only part of the problem. That the real problem is the Enron-esq, pyramid scheme run elsewhere. Ultimately just shifting the problem rather than resolving it.
@TestarossaF110
@TestarossaF110 3 жыл бұрын
All of that just because of Bob, trying to scam Alice into paying him a 100$... :(
@AjoiGibbons
@AjoiGibbons 3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@vanilla8353
@vanilla8353 3 жыл бұрын
You mean RTX
@pancakeplateau3953
@pancakeplateau3953 3 жыл бұрын
Okay so it's my 5th time watching this video. Let's hope I understand it this time.
@jmaphillips2538
@jmaphillips2538 3 жыл бұрын
Good for you, keep trying 👏
@TambouraBaptiste
@TambouraBaptiste 3 жыл бұрын
I'm watching it now for the first time. Wish me luck. 🙂
@serenasmith5946
@serenasmith5946 3 жыл бұрын
Lol don’t feel bad I’m trying to learn in slow motion😃😃😃😃😃
@Pozi_Drive
@Pozi_Drive 3 жыл бұрын
What it boils down to is: if you create a new currency you win. All newcomers loose. A ponzi scheme (aka pyramid game).
@StraveTube
@StraveTube 3 жыл бұрын
Please report back when it makes sense.
@jflight7013
@jflight7013 3 жыл бұрын
After watching this video, I have finally realized how dumb I really am.
@svenm7264
@svenm7264 3 жыл бұрын
Well the beginning of Socrates' wisdom was realizing the extent of his own ignorance. It's the unpleasant first step.
@jflight7013
@jflight7013 3 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what sorcery has to do with this.
@svenm7264
@svenm7264 3 жыл бұрын
@@jflight7013 Socrates is an ancient Greek philosopher.
@jflight7013
@jflight7013 3 жыл бұрын
@@svenm7264, oh sorry, I though you meant sorcery. I didn't know soccer and philosophy had any relationship, but I do know that what was shown in that video was way over my head.
@allysonand
@allysonand 3 жыл бұрын
@@svenm7264 big difference between ignorance and intelligence
@Bayesic
@Bayesic 2 жыл бұрын
So first of all, love the vid Just wanted to say from a purely meta kind of standpoint, I really love how this video is put together. Not even just the editing / graphics and what not, but just the way you tell the story. I'm constantly asking questions in my mind and it's like within the next minute or two you provide an answer. I'm definitely studying a lot of your videos to learn how to improve my own content because you do a masterful job at keeping your audience engaged. Fantastic work
@itzwindows
@itzwindows 2 жыл бұрын
The person above me is a simp
@MiladP
@MiladP 7 жыл бұрын
I like it how you go into the details and don't care how long your videos become. Thanks for not sacrificing details for more short-term viewers.
@Vitrunis
@Vitrunis 3 жыл бұрын
Wow that's great. I was like "meh, 25 minutes, that will be a long explanation, I'll try to hang on...", and at the end "already finished???"
@wow5212
@wow5212 4 жыл бұрын
It blows my mind how people were able to come up with this.
@Sophias
@Sophias 4 жыл бұрын
I'm just amazed... satoshi was such a genius. And more amazing is the fact that he/she/they didn't take any credit for this and left it up to the people to decide. Did he predict the value of bitcoin???
@wow5212
@wow5212 4 жыл бұрын
@@Sophias I think he believed the potential of the bitcoin and the blockchain technology (well he pretty much invented it) and he mined bitcoin when it was at its initial stage gathering tons of them. Some sources suggest he owns the most BTC eventhough no one knows how much he has.
@vidblogger12
@vidblogger12 4 жыл бұрын
As someone who is majoring in Computer Science and is planning to go into cybersecurity, the thing about this field that keeps blowing my mind is just how much work has gone into it. There’s so much that’s been built, so much that’s been done, so much to do. This field is VAST, there’s just so much stuff in computer science! Some of it is popular, some of it is revolutionary, some of it is both, most of it is neither. This creation of cryptocurrency was built off of the work of many people over a long period of time, and the explosion of various cryptocurrencies built off of that. Everything builds on everything else, and it just. never. stops. So much stuff is still being made, and it’s basically impossible to keep up with it all.
@electronresonator8882
@electronresonator8882 4 жыл бұрын
@@Sophias that Satoshi trying to challenge currencies which runs by the enormous and well established banking system from tiny corner of a forum in internet, at least you know why satoshi disappear when this blows up, I doubt satoshi wants this much fame when satoshi code the program
@artisit999
@artisit999 3 жыл бұрын
@@wow5212 no one knows Satoshi, so they don’t know Satoshi’s gender(s), so why assume it’s a man? Patriarchy is one hell of a drug, but please say no.
@zeesky1239
@zeesky1239 3 жыл бұрын
I only understand the ledger part, the rest I need to figure out.
@Dajlec
@Dajlec 3 жыл бұрын
re-watch the video..it took me 3x to get beyond the ledger part with understanding...
@adamvarghesesatish3337
@adamvarghesesatish3337 3 жыл бұрын
Your not the only one who feels like this😭
@PyroFlameofzwe
@PyroFlameofzwe 2 жыл бұрын
This is the kind of video about blockchain I wanted to watch. Not too confusing for beginners but with a certain level of complexity for already tech familiar audiences. Thank you so much for the video.
@Dontlikenaimepas
@Dontlikenaimepas 2 жыл бұрын
Totally !
@dr.ervingalen1777
@dr.ervingalen1777 2 жыл бұрын
i have no luck investing, is so frustrating
@stvjjgcj
@stvjjgcj 2 жыл бұрын
Even for non math people
@BangMaster96
@BangMaster96 3 жыл бұрын
I am glad there are smarter people out there than me. If it was up to me, we'd all still be living in huts out in the jungles
@studentberry3131
@studentberry3131 3 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@studentberry3131
@studentberry3131 3 жыл бұрын
If it were up to me we'd be in tents in our bedrooms😂😂 like children
@rarefiedhermetic792
@rarefiedhermetic792 3 жыл бұрын
It's not about ppl being smarter than you. It's who can understand the slight of hand better than others. Remember, currency is about what really doesn't exist. It's just an iou, basically.
@dominationstipps701
@dominationstipps701 3 жыл бұрын
made my day btw: feeling the same
@QueArgh
@QueArgh 3 жыл бұрын
That would probably be better
@michaelc8022
@michaelc8022 2 жыл бұрын
I have watched many, MANY, different videos on "what is Bitcoin." This video has been BY FAR the most helpful video. I tip my hat to you my friend, and a job well done.
@shmendusel
@shmendusel 2 жыл бұрын
Sorry to hijack this comment to ask my question, but I'm still kind of confused. Who's giving out the public and private keys? And how does a miner join the network? Like if I wanted to start mining do I need a friend in the network who can connect me? Or is there some bitcoin authority giving out keys and adding them to the network, so they know who to ping if they win the lottery, and so others know the ping them if they've won?
@ali51717
@ali51717 4 жыл бұрын
spent 2 hours reading on mining and couldn't understand it, 20 minutes where I all that I need.
@gaijincoordinator2922
@gaijincoordinator2922 4 жыл бұрын
were*
@elysiummaybee
@elysiummaybee 4 жыл бұрын
@@rosylucas4584 Get lost you stupid bot.
@hookbeak3516
@hookbeak3516 4 жыл бұрын
@@rosylucas4584 Are you saying its easy to lose money with what appears to be Bitcoin when in fact its a fake website? I'd like to invest but how does anyone trust anything on the internet, when anything can be faked. How can anyone trust anything? There maybe a digital signature with private & public key but whose ledger have we joined? How can I trust your advice when in cyberspace anything & everything is possible?
@hookbeak3516
@hookbeak3516 4 жыл бұрын
@@elysiummaybee Please read my comment to Rosy Lucas.
@kelechiopara5059
@kelechiopara5059 4 жыл бұрын
Guys please introduce me to a genuine company where i can invest
@0815funkmaster
@0815funkmaster 3 жыл бұрын
DANG...this still went straight over my head.
@johns7272
@johns7272 3 жыл бұрын
i know what you mean! i wish i had a brain.....
@tankofdesigns6898
@tankofdesigns6898 3 жыл бұрын
funniest sh!t ever LMAO
@kenm4768
@kenm4768 3 жыл бұрын
View it again and again, you'll eventually get it.
@andrewb2475
@andrewb2475 3 жыл бұрын
Love the comment buddy..................started to go over mine 4+minutes in
@childofgod1226
@childofgod1226 3 жыл бұрын
Lol, Feel the same.
@kolos4650
@kolos4650 7 жыл бұрын
I mean, that is an instant subscription from me. I've seen only one video, But I can already tell that author really does his research, knows his subject. Animation is minimalistic yet informative, filled with fun with easy to understand examples. Narration is smooth and friendly. Overall, that's what makes a great educational channel on KZbin. Very well done sir, I am sure You're gonna hit 1m sub till the end of this year!
@FernandoRodriguez-ge2tg
@FernandoRodriguez-ge2tg 7 жыл бұрын
Kolos he didn’t hit one million but all of that is true.
@pablososalizama8061
@pablososalizama8061 7 жыл бұрын
Hope this channel reaches that amount of subscribes. Even if not, it is definitely amazing in content and form, and shows in a very clear way how "real" math works (which, as we"ve seen here, has many technological applications).
@kaanylmaz4080
@kaanylmaz4080 4 жыл бұрын
it is almost 3m now
@A101-v6k
@A101-v6k 4 жыл бұрын
3.04M now
@kysonluka4426
@kysonluka4426 3 жыл бұрын
reach her on teIegram
@rajneshthakur3697
@rajneshthakur3697 2 жыл бұрын
After studying blockchain tutorials, Merkle tree, symmetric and asymmetric keys concepts, I finally found this video which put all the pieces of my learning together in one thread and make me understandable complete picture of block chain workflow.
@EdGeFaLL
@EdGeFaLL 3 жыл бұрын
This video is so good that I have come back to it several times over the years and have shared it directly with over 5 people I know. The value of high-quality education such as this is infinite. Thank you for this amazing contribution!
@matija92
@matija92 3 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@greentoolsnyc3985
@greentoolsnyc3985 3 жыл бұрын
over five people 🤔 6?
@adarozer
@adarozer 3 жыл бұрын
@@greentoolsnyc3985 7 ?
@jashshah1033
@jashshah1033 3 жыл бұрын
@@adarozer imma just make a wild guess... 8??
@greentoolsnyc3985
@greentoolsnyc3985 3 жыл бұрын
5 1/2
@treyhibbard
@treyhibbard 4 жыл бұрын
I like how the pi symbol can just raise the tail end and we perceive that as frustration
@matthewryan4844
@matthewryan4844 4 жыл бұрын
12:14 so many different expressions
@whatsapp-me4049
@whatsapp-me4049 3 жыл бұрын
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@hadeyveronica8452
@hadeyveronica8452 3 жыл бұрын
It is great pleasure to meet *bandyhacks* on *WhatsApp* on *937-504-0735* I got free BTC from him weekly👊
@ryanadams3305
@ryanadams3305 3 жыл бұрын
I find the dislikes very interesting. Its like leaving a bad review on an encyclopedia. I don't see any disputes related to the content. Thank you for the true explanation of blockchain. This was undoubtedly a huge effort to research, compile and present. You have earned my sub.
@divyangmathur
@divyangmathur 3 жыл бұрын
It's the competitors .. people making similar content or a video on the same topic
@ryanadams3305
@ryanadams3305 3 жыл бұрын
@@divyangmathur haters gonna hate
@fezkhanna6900
@fezkhanna6900 3 жыл бұрын
I didn't dislike the video; although I will say as a coder I prefer looking at the SHA256 algorithm, or simply importing it into python environment and playing around with it there. I think this video is complex, despite the calming voice and enjoyable animations; I also think a more lucid imagery of bitcoin can be conveyed by explaining the actual code behind bitcoin.
@zt3853
@zt3853 3 жыл бұрын
@@divyangmathur which is foolish, since the algorithm relies on engagement, disliking still shows that you were engaged with the video, thus boosting it in the algorithm
@MsEgwene
@MsEgwene 3 жыл бұрын
@@fezkhanna6900 You're probably not the intended audience for the videos then, as this is a quite typical 3b1b video. I very much enjoyed it, thanks for reminding me to give it a like :)
@ainzNemesis
@ainzNemesis 2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved this video. I love how deep into the nitty gritty you go, no other explanation has gone that far that I've found and the fact that this video is 5 years old is astounding.
@uzulim9234
@uzulim9234 4 жыл бұрын
Every time I tried to read about how cryptocurrencies work, I was frustrated. Now this.. this changes the game.
@vasudevraghav2109
@vasudevraghav2109 4 жыл бұрын
Hey, um... You can help us both. Wanna mine free crypto, download pi network on your apple or android phone. Use reference code: '*TerraBeing*' Start mining. It has good return in a year or so
@peterwoodgate9963
@peterwoodgate9963 4 жыл бұрын
I also needed a stock trader to manage my Bitcoin invest I learnt that investing in a brokerage firm to trade for oneself is more profitable than trading alone how true ?
@champsswim
@champsswim 4 жыл бұрын
This video will be watched a lot again in 2021
@KevinSmall
@KevinSmall 4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@tbaloni
@tbaloni 4 жыл бұрын
I can smell it already... Lamborghini season
@stevekarlsen1272
@stevekarlsen1272 4 жыл бұрын
Bitcoin is the future, Investing in it now will be the wisest thing to do especially with the current rise
@phoupe158
@phoupe158 4 жыл бұрын
@Peterson jane she gives very good head as well
@prototypeinheritance515
@prototypeinheritance515 4 жыл бұрын
@@phoupe158 lol
@benjaminb.4043
@benjaminb.4043 7 жыл бұрын
This is legit one of the best educational videos I have ever watched. I am stunned as to how you can concisely summarise all the core parts of a cryptocurrency in under 30 minutes!
@AllInTest
@AllInTest 6 жыл бұрын
Peercoin 8$ price ?
@dantraficonte8752
@dantraficonte8752 2 жыл бұрын
Wow. This was incredibly well illustrated and well done
@popsarah7805
@popsarah7805 2 жыл бұрын
Most people venture into crypto currency to be a millionaire meanwhile I just want to be debt Free
@madiezancanellatl9205
@madiezancanellatl9205 2 жыл бұрын
Making money is easier buy assets and invest
@kelvinpeter8640
@kelvinpeter8640 2 жыл бұрын
I'm looking for something to venture into on a short term basis, I have about $6k sitting in my savings, what do you think I should be buying?
@kelvinpeter8640
@kelvinpeter8640 2 жыл бұрын
@Anderson Sarah I'm new to this crypto investment, any specific guide?
@kelvinpeter8640
@kelvinpeter8640 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing 👍, I will write her immediately
@mbalimaka6393
@mbalimaka6393 2 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised someone mentioned mrs Kamilia of UCLA Anderson financial institute, I met her at a conference here in SA, I have been making weekly returns
@thodder9
@thodder9 7 жыл бұрын
The amount of work put into these videos is just incredible, down to the last little detail.
@dariusdalim8780
@dariusdalim8780 4 жыл бұрын
You are a life changer. I am not exaggerating. Absolutely no one can explain complex seeming things simpler than you. You are doing a great service to humanity. Thank you
@teresatrosell9169
@teresatrosell9169 4 жыл бұрын
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@realbignoob1886
@realbignoob1886 4 жыл бұрын
Yes :D
@80ismail20
@80ismail20 2 жыл бұрын
I am pissed off at these KZbinrs because they never talk about tech host farms and how they have impacted newbies and people who can't afford machines mining.
@mpicewe3023
@mpicewe3023 3 жыл бұрын
By far the best animation and explanation I have ever seen on the ledger/block chain. Thanks!
@williamclearydenies8605
@williamclearydenies8605 2 жыл бұрын
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@anthonystark5412
@anthonystark5412 7 жыл бұрын
I'm a LOT smarter after watching this video. Okay. I might not be smarter, but I am more enlightened.
@BobStein
@BobStein 7 жыл бұрын
I FEEL a lot smarter. Before watching this, Bitcoin seemed kind of advanced.
@WillPeterson
@WillPeterson 3 жыл бұрын
Can you make a video similar to this that explains how proof-of-stake works, or would work?
@OrangeXarot
@OrangeXarot 3 жыл бұрын
@3blue 1brown warning this is a fake
@Chaycetownson
@Chaycetownson 2 жыл бұрын
*I have always had a deep interest in this and would really love to start from somewhere anywhere actually , I believe this is what our future is all about*
@Chaycetownson
@Chaycetownson 2 жыл бұрын
Using *Virtual crypto mines*
@kortezhopkins5107
@kortezhopkins5107 2 жыл бұрын
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@jujuzinser321
@jujuzinser321 2 жыл бұрын
jesus christ stop with these comments
@christloen4077
@christloen4077 2 жыл бұрын
Stop
@tusharmenon9346
@tusharmenon9346 7 жыл бұрын
at around 20:30, theyre discussing how it isnt viable for Alice to try to commit fraud because she cant out-compute the other miners on the network all by herself. could someone explain what would happen if a group of miners (that formed the majority of the network) decide to commit fraud together?
@3blue1brown
@3blue1brown 7 жыл бұрын
It's 100% possible. And in fact, the top 4 miners of bitcoin have more than 50% of the network's total hashing power. However, if you have 50% of the total mining network's computation, you're probably better off using it to make ~$2.2 Million a day with honest mining than you to defraud a single individual.
@meiamsome
@meiamsome 7 жыл бұрын
This attack was performed somewhat successfully on Ethereum: www.coindesk.com/ethereum-classic-explained-blockchain/
@shredding121
@shredding121 7 жыл бұрын
That is not true. That was an attack on a flaw within a smart contract written on top of ethereum, not an attack on the blockchain.
@meiamsome
@meiamsome 7 жыл бұрын
I am referring to the fact that they then went and changed the original contract in the block chain history, which was an attack on the current canonical block chain at the time, and then re-built the entire chain from there
@shredding121
@shredding121 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, there is some truth in that. Although I have problems with the word "attack" when describing the hard fork; there are actually valid points that it was.
@HiteshGulati
@HiteshGulati 3 жыл бұрын
At 3:11 Splitwise: "Woah! We have a startup idea"
@xiangqiang2294
@xiangqiang2294 4 жыл бұрын
It's OK if you don't fully understand the video the first time. I understood the content after watching it the second time.
@singoutloud7127
@singoutloud7127 3 жыл бұрын
@Anthony Marcus SCAM
@odithegoldenretriever2158
@odithegoldenretriever2158 2 жыл бұрын
*Please I need someone here to explain to me how everything works , I have been trying to start and I am finally ready*
@debbiepowell1451
@debbiepowell1451 2 жыл бұрын
I used *virtual crypto mines*
@Kapin05
@Kapin05 6 жыл бұрын
Imagine having to actually do this in real life on a ledger... "Okay, so I'll just do some _super complex maths..._ " * Five hours later * "Right, now to write down this _super long very specific and vital number..._ " * One hour later * "Now to verify the transactions... using _super complex maths..._ " * Five days later * "Okay, now to check I ran the numbers right-"
@RyanTosh
@RyanTosh 5 жыл бұрын
...except that finding one of those special numbers by hand would take millions of years
@lare290
@lare290 5 жыл бұрын
@@RyanTosh I mean, if the blockchain was implemented for calculation by hand, the hashes would definitely be shorter.
@KuraIthys
@KuraIthys 5 жыл бұрын
Yep. Can't do that of course in a world where computers (or even handheld calculators) exist though. If you make the blockchain calculable by hand, it's going to be trivial to crack with a computer. (unless you can find something that is difficult for a computer to process or which is difficult to code a routine for.)
@sebimoe
@sebimoe 5 жыл бұрын
If someone wants to try it for real, you can use a website like this: www.devglan.com/online-tools/rsa-encryption-decryption *Setup:* - generate your keys - all exchange public keys - safekeeper creates google form linked to a spreadsheet for ledger line submissions, shares in read only mode *To transfer LD:* - think of a random number or word, make sure you haven't used it to do the same transaction before, could use sequential ids or date - encrypt a message with your private key "10/10/2020 send 500 ld to bob" - you are free to add any text there (could just leave a signed note with 0 transfer) - fill out the form with these fields: your random word, your name, your encrypted message You also could have unencrypted fields for the amount and recipient, so you can see it at first glance without decrypting the message having verified it earlier. *To verify a transaction:* Spreadsheet line contains: "10/10/2020", "Alice", "10/10/2020 sending 500ld to Bob", 500ld, Bob - take the encrypted message from the spreadsheet and decrypt it using the public key belonging to Alice (trusted from exchange) - if you are able to decrypt the message using Alice's public key, it must come from her - make sure the ID/date at the beginning of decrypted message matches the ID in the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet should have a formula to check for re-use of IDs, marking transactions invalid. - if you cannot verify it, you can submit a new entry describing the situation, with plaintext obscenities instead of encrypted message
@TheGoodGuys_gg
@TheGoodGuys_gg 5 жыл бұрын
@Kapin Maintaining a ledger is actually easier in real life. The only reason this comes across as complex is due to the cryptography involved to prevent people from cheating by fabricating data. How do people think banks balance out at the end of the day? A bank has a ledger (balance sheet) of all money incoming and outgoing. Other banks have ledgers too of all money incoming and outgoing, which some of the transactions will cross over to another bank's ledger due to their interaction. If a bank conducts an audit, its ledger should balance out. Scenario 1: If the ledger doesn't balance out, that means there was an error input by an employee or money was lost/stolen. At that point, the bank must tally everything. If any physical money was involved from the vault, the vault must be recounted. If the ledger is still short, they'll start the whole process all over again and recount. Eventually an investigation is opened to find out what happened to the money. Scenario 2: If the ledger does balance out, that means there were no errors and all monetary transactions were accounted for. What if a ledger balances out, but only because an employee stole $100 from a vault and wrote down that the $100 was accounted for? This malicious activity can't be hidden for very long because eventually that employee will have to transfer the contents of a vault over to a new owner and it will turn up short, revealing that $100 went missing under the employee's watch. Scenario 3: An entire bank is corrupt, constantly forging ledgers and fabricating financial documentation in order to get everything to balance out after pocketing the stolen money. This malicious activity can't be hidden for very long because any banks perceived to be involved in malicious activities can be audited by an independent third party and occasionally are subject to an independent audit by a third party regardless of whether or not they were suspected of malicious activities. Prior to centralized banking through the creation of the Federal Reserve, individuals bank themselves audited one another. Discrepancies between each bank's ledger through cross-examination, and any discrepancy between an individual bank's ledger and financial documentation(s) identified cheaters. Because of decentralized banking, banks could police each other to prevent cheaters. Post decentralized banking, the entity that audits and polices each bank is the Federal Reserve, which also handles the production of money in the United States. The U.S. treasury is supposed to handle the production of U.S. currency, but what happens instead is the Federal Reserve loans money to the U.S. Treasury who then prints physical U.S. currency. The U.S. Treasury pays back that loan (plus interest) to the Federal Reserve, causing the U.S. Government (or American people) to be placed in perpetual debt. For example, if you start out with 0 dollars and I loan you $1 at 10% interest, you would have to pay me back $1 and 10 cents. However, in order for you to pay back that 10 cents interest, you need me to loan you another $1 at 10% interest, so you again have to pay 10 cents on. The question, since decentralized banking caused banks to police each other by randomly auditing one another and now centralized banking enables the Federal Reserve as the de facto entity to fulfill this role, what entity audits the Federal Reserve to guarantee it doesn't turn corrupt and begin creative accounting? The answer is no one. There is no entity. Now you know why the Federal Reserve, established in 1913, for over 100 years, has never been audited. An audit would unveil all the malicious activities going on in the U.S. banking industry and what's happening with that interest the U.S. Treasury (or American people) are forced to pay. Anyways, the Achilles' Heel for cryptocurrency (something decentralized) other than it being dependent on the Internet (something centralized) is quantum computing. Once developed, a quantum computer would be able to mine any block and would take over the entire blockchain.
@DerangedTechnologist
@DerangedTechnologist 3 жыл бұрын
This is crisp, well organized, comprehensible. (You are also clear about the fact that it's not by any means a complete description.) Thank you!
@annabahador9858
@annabahador9858 3 жыл бұрын
One amazing thing about cryptocurrency is that supporters see cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as the currency of the future and are racing to buy them now, presumably before they become more valuable. I am so glad to have invested in crypto some years back.
@wilsonkrusk8652
@wilsonkrusk8652 3 жыл бұрын
TRUE!!!
@greghughes6766
@greghughes6766 3 жыл бұрын
For those who see cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin as the currency of the future, it should be noted that a currency needs stability.
@greghughes6766
@greghughes6766 3 жыл бұрын
@Rebecca Moore Hmm, don't know about that. I would never invest in cryptocurrencies because I have seen no reason at all to trust an income I can neither see nor touch, it is very risky to. If I could get a good reason to change my mind, I think I could give it a trial.
@annabahador9858
@annabahador9858 3 жыл бұрын
@@greghughes6766 LOL, I see. I would give you 5 brief reasons why crypto is the best investment, why crypto is the future.
@annabahador9858
@annabahador9858 3 жыл бұрын
{i} - Incredible returns : Cryptocurrencies have been around for a relatively short time, but so far they can be and have proven to be more profitable than most other investments. They tend to show wide changes in their prices over relatively short periods. {ii} - Simplicity: They are a real sign of the times; both joining and taking part is simple. You do not have to deal with any institutions, sign papers, or visit banks. You simply create an account, get a wallet, and track all your assets with no effort at all. {iii} - Your money is yours alone: With cryptocurrencies, your money is yours only and stays yours forever. You do not rely on financial institutions for holding or transferring it. You do not have to pay their exorbitant fees. In the long run, it can become the basis of a truly open and decentralized economy. By investing now, you can be at the forefront of it all. {iv} - High liquidity: By their very nature, cryptocurrencies have very high liquidity - you can quickly and easily buy and sell them, and the technological organization of trading platforms allows the use of a wide variety of tools and tactics, such as limit-orders (automated buying and selling at a specified price) and algorithm-based trading. {v} - Favorable forecasts: It is a better solution to invest for the long-term - currently, most cryptocurrencies are going through a downward trend, but most forecasts are favorable and show growth within two to five years. And when we say “growth” in relation to cryptocurrencies, it is often explosive.
@bobbygunz9254
@bobbygunz9254 2 жыл бұрын
48k reclaim will put bitcoin in a very good position moving forward. The range from 38k-48k seems plausible!
@viviangall1786
@viviangall1786 2 жыл бұрын
@claradidi7573
@claradidi7573 2 жыл бұрын
@chris-pj7rk
@chris-pj7rk 2 жыл бұрын
@claradidi7573
@claradidi7573 2 жыл бұрын
@@chris-pj7rk
@WilliametcCook
@WilliametcCook 7 жыл бұрын
When you know all of the channel names he shows at 13:01 except for Welch Labs
@3blue1brown
@3blue1brown 7 жыл бұрын
You should check it out! Stephen Welch does some really great work.
@alexsere3061
@alexsere3061 7 жыл бұрын
William1234567890123 Cook welch Labs is amazing
@alexsere3061
@alexsere3061 7 жыл бұрын
Ralf Schmelcher yeah, also I recomend bingewatching his finnished serieses, he uses some annoying cliffhangers from time to time
@luizmeier
@luizmeier 7 жыл бұрын
The Math Illuminati.
@JM-us3fr
@JM-us3fr 7 жыл бұрын
It's nice to be a math nerd
@cemxwekta358
@cemxwekta358 4 жыл бұрын
Is it possible you to make a video about proof-of-stake and delegated proof-of-stake too?
@masonhunter2748
@masonhunter2748 4 жыл бұрын
Proof-of-stake?
@varunsomashekar6139
@varunsomashekar6139 4 жыл бұрын
@@masonhunter2748 Instead of Proof-of-Work, which requires complex hashes to be calculated to mine a block, stakers put their funds at stake to validate transactions. It's much more energy efficient and better for the environment.
@mysteryY2K
@mysteryY2K 3 жыл бұрын
@@varunsomashekar6139 How exactly does that work if it's not using computing power? Looking into ADA staking currently
@bennemann
@bennemann 7 жыл бұрын
The amount of thought and work that went into making this topic as easy to understand as possible (which I believe you succeeded in doing) is awe-inspiring. I don't even need to look at other videos of your channel to be confident in subscribing to you. Looking forward to more of your stuff!
@mal6120
@mal6120 2 жыл бұрын
this was awesome! I was having trouble on understanding the nodes vs. miners as well as the random number / difficulty adjustment but this totally cleared it up!
@AbodyRulez
@AbodyRulez 4 жыл бұрын
It could be a hideous question but bare with me Since a country like China owns more than 80% of the mining pools out there with a plethora of hashing power, wouldn't that make their chances of creating a forged fork much higher since most of the computational power is kinda controlled by them? Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the following on his published bitcoin paper: "The longest chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU power" Also, he said: "The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes." Doesn't that make the largest pool of CPU/GPU power able to forge the chain?
@matthewtrimby
@matthewtrimby 4 жыл бұрын
Technically yes, if one person/group could control >50% of the computational power in the world dedicated to mining they could start producing fake blocks that would be accepted into the chain. However here's a few of the factors that discourage this behaviour: 1. It would cost a huge amount (powerful computers, electricity etc) to have that kind of computational power 2. There is an incentive (block reward, transaction fee) for nodes adding legitimate blocks to the chain, this is only awarded after the block is confirmed (6 more blocks added to that chain iirc) - so generating blocks is profitable for honest nodes, i.e. less motivation to try and cheat the system 3. The inherent value of bitcoin is based a lot on how much people trust it, if fraudulent transactions became commonplace people would trust it less and therefore the value of bitcoin would plummet - so the malicious nodes could give their owners lots of bitcoin, but it wouldn't be worth anything Essentially, when it comes down to brass tax, if you have access to that much computational power, its more beneficial to you to use it to mine bitcoin honestly.
@vishwajeetpandey7392
@vishwajeetpandey7392 4 жыл бұрын
@@matthewtrimby Answering to your 1 point China has already into enough computational power
@nole8923
@nole8923 7 жыл бұрын
This is the best explanation I have seen thus far. Am recommending this video to everyone who has asked me how it works.
@percales
@percales 6 жыл бұрын
Someone being clear, thank you.
@Giano89
@Giano89 6 жыл бұрын
You do understand that paper money has no intrinsic value exactely like bitcoins right? The only thing that makes paper money valuable is that people believe it has value. If people massively started agreeing that bitcoins have "the same value" as paper money, they EFFECTIVELY WOULD HAVE the same exact value. Are we there yet? Of course not. But that does not change the point.
@FlipTieYT
@FlipTieYT 6 жыл бұрын
Great explanation, thanks. Im sharing it to everyone right now.
@richrich9740
@richrich9740 6 жыл бұрын
so no1?
@reggiep75
@reggiep75 6 жыл бұрын
Chris Barnatt of Explaining Computers does a good layman filled explanation of blockchain which sneaks ahead of this video, as good as this video is, and I'm inclined to put his video first and this a close second as most gaps and question marks are covered with both videos.
@itsiwhatitsi
@itsiwhatitsi 6 жыл бұрын
One of the best channel on YT
@dukyromo4602
@dukyromo4602 2 жыл бұрын
I mine everyday, and invest all my money into it. Yet every 2-3 months I come back and watch this cause no one else explains it better
@jacobs-h398
@jacobs-h398 7 жыл бұрын
"To call it astronomically large, would be giving way too much credit to astronomy", lol
@JM-us3fr
@JM-us3fr 7 жыл бұрын
Actually, "astronomically large" is an apt description. 2^256=8^64 < 10^78, which is the estimated lower bound of the number of atoms in the universe. Furthermore, 2^256=16^32 > 10^29, which is roughly the diameter of the observable universe in millimeters.
@thehorseformerlywithoutana2522
@thehorseformerlywithoutana2522 7 жыл бұрын
Or just enough?
@AbdielJ
@AbdielJ 6 жыл бұрын
I am an astronomy student and I found that sentence otherworldly.
@OhAzzO
@OhAzzO 3 жыл бұрын
a couple hours later, a desk full of notes and now an actual idea what is going on. Best vid ! thank you my guy !!!!!!!
@quetzapollo
@quetzapollo 3 жыл бұрын
WW3:SKYFALL
@BatteryAcid1103
@BatteryAcid1103 7 жыл бұрын
Wow. I've been wanting to know how crypto-currencies work for a few years now. I've done a little research here and there, but nothing ever really clicked. Until this video. You explained everything in just enough detail for it to be easy to follow yet still very informative. Amazing video, 3b1b. Keep up the awesome work. :)
@HülyeLó
@HülyeLó 5 жыл бұрын
@@somerealnews6312 I mean I'm a software engineer and still had to watch it twice to fully get it. Give it a couple of more tries if you're that interested.
@Natalieneptune469
@Natalieneptune469 2 жыл бұрын
Every new day, Bitcoin gains support and patronage of more and more politicians, billionaires, finance institutions and institutional investors. Could even surpass the 60k June 2022 forecast.
@Mcdd7-_-
@Mcdd7-_- 2 жыл бұрын
Very true. Just recently Fidelity said they have been accumulating bitcoin since 2014, then again, it was announced that the SEC will likely heed to calls for BTC approval come 2023. This shows that whales and smart funds are buying bitcoin quietly, but they won't let the public know. It's such a pity that people are worried about btc not reaching a particular price at a given period instead of securing their place in the future with btc.
@claradidi7573
@claradidi7573 2 жыл бұрын
@@Mcdd7-_-How can someone who is just starting out navigate the crypto space? I don't have the heart to see the bulk of my portfolio go from green to red
@Jme---
@Jme--- 2 жыл бұрын
@@claradidi7573If you are a beginner, then you definitely need some guide and tips from an experienced investor or a professional. That’s the most ideal way to launch into the market these days.
@instinctively_awesome8283
@instinctively_awesome8283 2 жыл бұрын
digital currency is the future of finance, anybody still in doubt of that isn't in touch of reality.
@epauletshark3793
@epauletshark3793 3 жыл бұрын
1: what are friends? 2: how do I lose trust in something nonexistent and that I have no trust in in the first place?
@garylarkan1306
@garylarkan1306 3 жыл бұрын
Why are you watching 30 minute long videos on something you don't believe in or trust in the first place?
@epauletshark3793
@epauletshark3793 3 жыл бұрын
@@garylarkan1306 cuz why not.
@NicitoStaAna
@NicitoStaAna 3 жыл бұрын
1. Collective mind of the internet. If you trust democracies, it relies where majority of it's citizens are on average, follow the same culture or in this case policy So as long as 51% of miners aren't under control by a centralized entity. On average, said blockchain is 2. You didn't trust FB at first, but after collective effor (because FB is better than friendster). Eventually, the world in uses it in a whole bunc of things Instead of social media, bitcoin is decentralized money/store of value (Litecoin is sorta same but more faster/quieter, Ethereum is more on if then instructions+blockchain etc. And numerous other competitors) Applications? NFT, Band can start and be supported through code instead of (ponzi-like, record labels where the top musicians subsidizes not so good musicians) Or CSGO lotto but decentralized (not advocating for gambling+gaming items as it could easily get kids involved) And money laundering, even if they get to you. As long as the private key isn't knowable but you. Storing millions of cash with semi known creator or unknown private key is a mob's/terrorist's dream. So is also the dream of people wanting to get their capital on usd but illegal in home shithole country because of geopolitical reasons. (Assuming said country isn't shithole enough to prevent internet connection) Don't get me wrong, it's inefficient/fueled by hype. But it has its uses. Just like fire, with a bit of discipline. We can get the benefits/mitigate risks. Plus, bitcoin isn't king yet, it has competition.
@epauletshark3793
@epauletshark3793 3 жыл бұрын
@@NicitoStaAna ima guess you completely missed the joke.
@killuazoldyck_
@killuazoldyck_ 4 жыл бұрын
Lmao scams are everywhere here. Literally anyone who named someone or giving out personal number and email were the obvious one. Please be careful people..
@squarecracker
@squarecracker 4 жыл бұрын
I disagree. I sent my bitcoins to mister Allistair Thomas, and his trading strategies earned me more than 2 BTC in one week!
@gus2603
@gus2603 4 жыл бұрын
A spam/scam replay on a comment about scam comments lol 2meta4me
@hobisboop
@hobisboop 4 жыл бұрын
thanks for watching out for us killua
@50jakecs
@50jakecs 3 жыл бұрын
@@squarecracker This is a scam
@jeffery_tang
@jeffery_tang 3 жыл бұрын
@@squarecracker u sound fake
@cosmiclounge
@cosmiclounge 3 жыл бұрын
This video is 'proof of work' indeed.
@universenerdd
@universenerdd 3 жыл бұрын
@@zacharymcdonald6506 read the pinned comment
@haidoss
@haidoss 3 жыл бұрын
BUY and Hold Quantumcurrency, first QC is QRL
@physikus1123
@physikus1123 2 жыл бұрын
I love how you subtly touched P vs. NP in the process:)
@robintunley2286
@robintunley2286 3 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favourite videos, I took so much away from it! Would you be open to doing a similar style of video on the Proof of Stake mechanism that Ethereum will be transitioning to? Keep up the beautiful work.
@juvent.h6699
@juvent.h6699 3 жыл бұрын
I need to watch more videos like that until I can understand this, it sounds like obscure and mysterious talk; it's an arkanum
@panlis6243
@panlis6243 3 жыл бұрын
Cryptocurrency is one of these things that reminds me how most of us have absolutely no idea how all the stuff that we use every day actually works
@theopantamis9184
@theopantamis9184 3 жыл бұрын
Money in general is one of them :)
@weewoo3768
@weewoo3768 3 жыл бұрын
@@theopantamis9184 Finally, Someone who gets it
@earnthis1
@earnthis1 2 жыл бұрын
@@theopantamis9184 You don't understand how money in general works?? lol So..trust bitcoin, or whatever??? lololololol
@earnthis1
@earnthis1 2 жыл бұрын
That's why suckers get scammed so easily. The world is confusing kids
@theopantamis9184
@theopantamis9184 2 жыл бұрын
@@earnthis1 What is your point ? Yes money is a complicated topic, it is already quite hard to understand who creates fiat money. Yes many people are scammed because some of them are less careful with crypto because they don't get the full implication of it. But Bitcoin is not a scam (crypto can be scam). That said no one asks anyone else to "trust" it. It is even the contrary: you can check everything for yourself by running it and read the code if you want to, you can't do that with fiat money where faith is literally required in its name.
@avigindratt7608
@avigindratt7608 2 жыл бұрын
The fact that no one seems to understand this no matter how many times it’s explained.
@nGUNNARp
@nGUNNARp 2 жыл бұрын
prob took me 10 watches for it to start to click, still need refreshers though
@sebastianrenemorales1103
@sebastianrenemorales1103 7 жыл бұрын
3Blue1Brown Your videos are incredible, I love them, the truth is you are the best
@arneoduca2915
@arneoduca2915 6 жыл бұрын
Sebastian Rene Morales just had an add of cryptocurrency mining
@jihochoi_cs
@jihochoi_cs 7 жыл бұрын
This is honestly the best cryptocurrency explanation video that I've watched so far. :)
@DerMarkus1982
@DerMarkus1982 6 жыл бұрын
I totally agree. Never got the system and the nitty-gritty of cryptocurrency into my head - until now, watching that video. It's clear now, I even have bit of a sense of what "mining" really is...
@MelancholyCrypto
@MelancholyCrypto 5 жыл бұрын
People are so much smarter than me, it's absurd.
@sobtrax1846
@sobtrax1846 5 жыл бұрын
Tbh this video is easy to understand compared to others
@Barkingstingray
@Barkingstingray 5 жыл бұрын
@@sobtrax1846 he means the fact that people discovered, coded, and got this stuff to work, understanding something =/= the ability to create it from scratch, you know?
@sobtrax1846
@sobtrax1846 5 жыл бұрын
@@Barkingstingray oh okay, I thought he is saying that this video is hard to understand
@Barkingstingray
@Barkingstingray 5 жыл бұрын
@@sobtrax1846 yeah no worries that's what I figured! He might be but it sounds more to me he is just astounded at how this was ever developed
@the_real_vdegenne
@the_real_vdegenne 5 жыл бұрын
@@sobtrax1846 and actually this video is not easy to understand compared to others, where you got that from ? I think 3Blue1Brown can help to understand some concept with the visual but to be honest in this video the elements of understanding are all broken apart, some videos out there explain the blockchain and cryptocurrencies in a more orderly and progressive manner that helps more to understand.
@bersanklcgdk1108
@bersanklcgdk1108 2 жыл бұрын
*I urge everyone to start somewhere now no matter how small, this is literally the time for that, forget material things , don’t get tempted*
@nickscurvy8635
@nickscurvy8635 2 жыл бұрын
Get started what
@huibu8987
@huibu8987 2 жыл бұрын
@@nickscurvy8635 hodling go stack some sats
@alueshen
@alueshen 4 жыл бұрын
As a tech person, I think what has been accomplished with crypto is amazing, but as an economist, I see a problem that I never hear discussed in crypto circles. Investments make terrible currency. Our currency value needs to be stable and predictable over the long term. When people trade in Bitcoin, more often then not they aren't looking for a stable form of currency, rather they are looking to buy low and sell high. For myself, I might invest in a little VC of one type or another, but I would never accept payment in VC because, among other things, I couldn't be sure the value wouldn't plummet any time after I was paid. Think of real currencies like a metro pass. Metro passes are the currency of the metro. When I hold a pass the metro is in debt to me. I am owed a ride on a train. The same idea works for theater tickets, arcade tokens, and another token that can be used to purchase something real and tangible. Why would a company redeem these paper and plastic tokens for things of real and tangible value? Societal laws. What about Government fiat? What is it the promise of? The answer is that anyone who wishes to participate in society and reap the benefits of it has to pay taxes of one form or another. Taxes are enforcible by the state and failure to pay them will result in a loss of currency, property or freedom. So it's not what fiat is redeemable for, but what it prevents that gives it value. Since we all find ourselves in a similar situation, we trade in fiat. So again, I ask anyone, what is crypto the promise of? And please, don't tell me "freedom from government oppression" Give me a real tangible answer, because the way I see it, crypto isn't the promise of anything at all. It is the ultimate Ponzi scheme. However it's spread so wide and so far, it may work in perpetuity. There won't be any big crash, rather it will just circulate around creating winners and losers. There are other substantial problems of replacing government fiat with crypto unless people here believe that crypto will always work alongside government currency. Thoughts?
@raimonddeieso7433
@raimonddeieso7433 4 жыл бұрын
👍
@akastenas
@akastenas 4 жыл бұрын
You can read more about this on Buttcoin community on Reddit. Bitcoin or any other currency right now is just a string of 1 and 0. People don't understand what they are buying exactly. All smart ones understand it's a scam and just riding the wave. The rest don't understand and are easy manipulated. Many people trading Bitcoin are former forex enthusiasts. Some gamblers here and there also. Some poor people who cannot buy anything else and of course smart speculators. I am against this type of scam. It's pure speculation.
@akastenas
@akastenas 4 жыл бұрын
@Chris 1983 like I mentioned you are one of the smart speculators. 90 percent of people are not. Its a game basically with a cult like following. As long as new players get in, the show goes on.
@pizzamandhx
@pizzamandhx 4 жыл бұрын
Virtual currencies are fiat money. If everyone BELIEVES that it's worth something, then it is. It is no different from bottle caps in the Fallout video games or United States Dollars (RIP Gold Standard). It's somewhat rare, there's a cap on how much can ever exist, and there are willing traders of goods and services for those monies. So long as people are willing to trade their goods and services for bitcoins or any other kinds of coins, then it's real money.
@fritzr.4722
@fritzr.4722 4 жыл бұрын
@alueshen the more traders, the better for the currency. since traders sell high and buy low, they improve the stability.
@sormu16
@sormu16 3 жыл бұрын
This was excellent and detailed enough for making sense. It certainly helps being an IT person, knowing the elements already.
@thelateadopter9862
@thelateadopter9862 3 жыл бұрын
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@weyderwarr
@weyderwarr 7 жыл бұрын
23:00 Sincerely, thank you for including this segment in the video. The fact that block rewards and transaction fees are not one and the same is far from trivial and I am astonished by how far down the rabbit hole one must go to find out about this. Again, thank you. You seem to actually give a shit about the things you talk about and that is very refreshing. Cheers
@lisaeibergs338
@lisaeibergs338 2 жыл бұрын
Great video! My acknowledgement to you for your knowledge on business lesson that helped me understand the market trial with real reason why people get poorer, And How to Avoid this situation
@cryptoethics
@cryptoethics 2 жыл бұрын
Stupendous advice on crypto and passive. Tells it like it is,honest opinion. Only promoting what is working in the market
@oscarrodriguezjr9467
@oscarrodriguezjr9467 2 жыл бұрын
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@PalmArnd
@PalmArnd 2 жыл бұрын
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@creghamilton433
@creghamilton433 2 жыл бұрын
Please share more details because Most people today have been having a lot of failures in forex and crypto because of poor orientation and on guidance
@dreamstime4272
@dreamstime4272 2 жыл бұрын
It's not ignorance friend most people venture into the market heavily without any help to guide them through the process needed
@BenDonahower
@BenDonahower 3 жыл бұрын
Finally understand the principles. I've watched a number of videos and even read a book. I'm either a slow learner, this is a great video, or both!
@warriortrading5292
@warriortrading5292 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment on this video, we'll keep helping you make better trade as much as we can.
@debbiepowell1451
@debbiepowell1451 2 жыл бұрын
I am extremely glad I was able to join in when I did , basically the best decision I ever made this year, never been so happy
@debbiepowell1451
@debbiepowell1451 2 жыл бұрын
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@itcoinitcoin6777
@itcoinitcoin6777 2 жыл бұрын
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@kortezhopkins5107
@kortezhopkins5107 2 жыл бұрын
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@vishnuvarma8019
@vishnuvarma8019 2 жыл бұрын
Your truly, truly understand bitcoin and the systems in place now to explain this so well and to draw distinctions. Love your work!
@MegaBearsFan
@MegaBearsFan 2 жыл бұрын
There's a few questions that I have about how cryptocurrency works that are not addressed in this video, specifically, the costs of transactions and storage: 1.) How much storage space does a ledger take up? If everybody has to have a copy of it, won't it eventually become so big that average consumers won't have hard drives big enough to store it? If so, how would it still be reliable? 2.) How much energy does it cost to actually mine a coin, and how does that cost not offset the value of the mined coin?
@-parrrate
@-parrrate 2 жыл бұрын
@Digi both BTC and Monero also allow for storage and usage of the pruned chain, which is about three times smaller; the mechanism was described in the original whitepaper about BTC by S.N.
@myrazoe3918
@myrazoe3918 3 жыл бұрын
Every bitcoin investor right now is just smiling at the price of bitcoin as it held strong and indeed valuable enough to generating good ROI. More persons are gonna become millionaires and we have bitcoin thanks for that
@zoeyviktoria7914
@zoeyviktoria7914 3 жыл бұрын
I agree on your opinion man generally I always look out for it to dump so I can purchase some more truly it has come to stay
@michaelsdombrowski7044
@michaelsdombrowski7044 3 жыл бұрын
What's really the idea behind this bitcoin investment anyway, cause all I do is to buy when it falls and sell when it goes high
@oliveralexande6205
@oliveralexande6205 3 жыл бұрын
Relating bitcoin investment to forex trading definitely means there are risk involved and just how do you appropriate risk measures
@kanhasaatvik4851
@kanhasaatvik4851 3 жыл бұрын
@@oliveralexande6205 :Offcourse, in bitcoin investment suitable risk management is aimed at reducing the loss rate thereby giving you the better chance to win your trade to ensure good ROI
@dylanbenefied9216
@dylanbenefied9216 3 жыл бұрын
@@kanhasaatvik4851 you sound like a professional
@WelcomeTheDamned
@WelcomeTheDamned 7 жыл бұрын
You are by far the best explainer of things I have encountered in my life
@doloresdelatorre5827
@doloresdelatorre5827 3 жыл бұрын
Incredible is the extent we will go because we can’t trust each other
@DeLambada
@DeLambada 3 жыл бұрын
Just think door locks! How many are there? How mach money, work and energy is spent on them?
@Robotomy101
@Robotomy101 3 жыл бұрын
@Liam Anthony I do not want to message "her" for crypto trade.
@olivierdanvel8559
@olivierdanvel8559 3 жыл бұрын
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@048593246
@048593246 3 жыл бұрын
@Smunstu Stinkymonster she always left me satisfied 💦
@Cossen09
@Cossen09 3 жыл бұрын
We can trust each other. We can't trust everyone though.
@purushottamrawat5186
@purushottamrawat5186 2 жыл бұрын
Your ability to teach the complex and confusing things in simple and visualisation form is god level🔥🔥
@borisvadim1488
@borisvadim1488 2 жыл бұрын
Do get in touch
@andrewtyson7670
@andrewtyson7670 3 жыл бұрын
My right side brain: this makes all sense My left side brain: I have no clue what the hell I just watched
@BillAnt
@BillAnt 3 жыл бұрын
My sphincter started tingling at the sight of those long cyphers. ha-ha
@rollyannwood6758
@rollyannwood6758 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly!! Still laughing at your comment. My only comment would be that my right side brain just collided with my left side brain which resulted in a catastrophic failure! Still looking for the extra pieces!
@honpaul2203
@honpaul2203 3 жыл бұрын
Haha exactly
@aniweshranjan6150
@aniweshranjan6150 3 жыл бұрын
Directly landing here after Biswa's crypto class 😁
@sandrapadilla5
@sandrapadilla5 3 жыл бұрын
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@billcampbell9988
@billcampbell9988 7 жыл бұрын
This was excellent; thank you.
@scottcampbell8368
@scottcampbell8368 7 жыл бұрын
This comment was excellent; thank you.
@pawananubhav12
@pawananubhav12 7 жыл бұрын
Charmander Charmander you are not alone, me too.
@AllInTest
@AllInTest 6 жыл бұрын
yep Excellent Peercoin start Rise up :D
@williamcollins7128
@williamcollins7128 3 жыл бұрын
I'm new here how can I get more information about it
@rikkiegieler5638
@rikkiegieler5638 3 жыл бұрын
CryptoBusy +William collins fyi, that is a scam. Don’t contact that number.
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