What are the most common myths about Bitcoin?

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Carlos Mosquera, CEO of Solidus, provides Investing In Digital Assets Like Bitcoin Safe? Is Bitcoin backed? These are just some of the questions I know the most about cryptocurrencies. Carlos Mosquera, CEO of Solidus, shared with Cointelegraph en Español some answers to common doubts that exist about Bitcoin, refuting myths.

"Bitcoin has been declared dead almost 380 times since its inception in 2009. Its constant criticism has managed to create many myths that give a bad image to the public that has not had the opportunity to learn from this new asset," Mosquera explained.

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Myths about Bitcoin

Here are six myths about Bitcoin, and the fundamentals that disprove those myths, according to Carlos Mosquera:

1) Bitcoin exposes your personal information

Fake. Although your transactions are registered in the bitcoin address that you use as a pseudonym, neither the sender nor the receiver need to know each other - as is the case with a credit or debit card. This means that a bitcoin transaction is anonymous and no third party can see the personal data of those involved.

So, although Bitcoin is not completely a private transaction since there is a record of the amount of money and date of the movements, no more information is revealed to third parties. And it is thanks to its transparency and that it is not entirely a private transaction, but it is anonymous, that fraud, theft and manipulation of third parties are avoided.

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2) Bitcoin is only used by hackers and cyber criminals

Fake. Due to the transparency of transactions with Digital Assets such as Bitcoin and its open nature with which movements are traceable to some extent, digital criminals have a difficult time converting these bitcoin funds into fiat money - the current money that serves as the exchange currency. -.

In fact, although unfortunately in its beginnings this Digital Asset was associated with the case of the darknet platform Silk Road where it was used as a means of exchange - it could well be a conventional credit card or another currency -, later Bitcoin contributed to the shutdown of one of the world's largest child pornography websites by facilitating address tracing on a darknet server.

And the reality is that fraud, money laundering, and illicit goods transactions can occur with any exchange currency, but Bitcoin has created a bad name, and cases of its misuse have been exaggerated, without foundation, only to discredit her. Even more, fraud occurs with traditional currencies compared to Digital Assets: the Messari website reveals that for every dollar spent on Bitcoin for darknet operations, USD 800 is criminally laundered in the conventional banking system.

3) The Bitcoin network suffers from many cyber attacks

Fake. Although it is common to relate hacks and scams of exchanges with the intangible and digital nature of Digital Assets, it must be understood that hackers take advantage of the security flaws of the platforms where transactions are carried out, but it has nothing to do with it. with the Bitcoin network.

In fact, the Bitcoin Blockchain has never been hacked, since its P2P (peer-to-peer) network works under a distributed and decentralized system, which is resistant to counterfeits, failures, and computer attacks.

4) Bitcoin is not endorsed by anyone

Fake. Given this, it must first be noted that modern money is backed solely by the promise of governments and banks in economies only, and it is these "money managers" of the world who have lately created more "bubbles" in more asset classes. in global financial history. But this fiat money, accepted worldwide, in itself, is only a means of payment and a measure of value, but it does not amount to a reserve of wealth, as gold and silver were.

Notes and coins have value today because we are forced to use them as an imposed form of exchange, while the government continues to devalue their value in front of us, without our being able to do anything.

So what is the difference? Bitcoin is a fast, low-fee exchange currency suitable for a modern, globally interconnected world that is not centrally managed and has a limited supply of 21 million.

5) A government can suspend the use of Bitcoin

Fake. Not even the Venezuelan government managed to prevent its use and that is why it chose to regulate it rather than suspend it. And even though countries like Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Algeria, India and some others have pushed for their ban, it is almost impossible to do so since, practically, to stop the Bitcoin network, governments would have to turn off the internet.

Bitcoin operates with a decentralized network in which thousands of people in different parts of the world contribute to it with one or more miners - individuals or groups of people around the world who record transactions and secure them on the Blockchain of the Bitcoin network. - processing all transactions in each block, and it is up to the miners to verify the transactions, but without a central authority as happens with banks or governments.

So with the private key of a Bitcoin wallet, there is no way someone could freeze your funds or suspend transactions or lock your account.

6) Bitcoin is an investment company

Fake. Neither investment company nor a broker. It is not like Paypal or Visa either. Bitcoin is a network and it is a Digital Asset that works thanks to the participation of independent actors around the world that run nodes, keeping a record of the entire chain of blocks, extract them, develop software and carry out transactions, creating the market.

Without a central authority, nothing can be altered on the network; furthermore, anyone has the freedom to audit the source code that is open directly.

Conclusions

Mosquera reflected: “All of these myths are false and give a bad image of Bitcoin to the general public. That is why at Solidus we care about trying to achieve the best understanding of its technology and disruptive nature, as a new class of asset of undeniable global relevance and that represents a good opportunity to invest. "

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