Recently I have heard from a friend that the BrewDog
company will be implementing the Bitcoin Cash service into their stores. This
is exciting news for many people out there because the world's hottest drinks
are starting to get involved with this new form of currency exchange. However,
I am very confused about how this works. What does this mean for me? Will I
have to jump on the bandwagon and start buying things with my cold cash? What's
the big deal?
The BrewDog Company, based out of San Francisco, has
applied the use of a toomim reference client (TRIC) to operate their merchant
services using bitcoin as the main payment method. Now if you don't know what a
toomim reference client is, allow me to explain. A toomim refers to a specific
physical device, like a memory card or a smart phone that holds a virtual key. In
this case, the key is used to make an offline transaction with your selected
online retailer.
You can think of it like this: instead of Bitcoin Cash Reference into
your local bar and placing your money on the counter, you transfer it through a
touch pad on your smart phone or through a toomim reference client. At the
point of transaction, you are not dealing with a physical entity or a business.
Instead, you are dealing with your digital brain. Just like the brain waves
that enter your body when you go into a deep sleep, your virtual brain waves
are converted into a physical form of money known as ECD. If you are using the
Internet to purchase goods and services, then you are using a full node or a
proof of work system that generates your constant ECD, also known as the
bitcoins.
The reason why this is so important to understand is
because if you are not using a full node or a proof of work system, then you
are leaving yourself open to a major attack known as an attacker who can send
you lots of free energy or digital water (the bitcoins). When you are dealing
with an attacker, you have to take the time to confirm the transaction before
you give the money to the merchant. An attacker can do this in two ways: he can
send you lots of unconfirmed chained transactions (which is very bad) or he can
send you lots of confirmed transactions, which is really bad. If an attacker
gets his hands on all of the confirmed outputs, he could easily control your
entire wallet. This is why I warn people not to use the bitcoins as a form of currency
and never transmit any amount of money to anyone in the network without going
through the various levels of security.
A second major problem with the bitcoins is that while it
is great for people who are willing to work on the open source code and build
their own network using their own computers, it is useless for regular people
who want to use a standard operating platform such as Windows. Even though the
bitcoins are very easy to get into, you need to know how to use them on a
normal computer so that you do not become dependent on others. You see, the
bitcoins work just like digital cash, except instead of having stacks of cash
in an offline bank account, you have a digital work that is held by the network
until you send it to the network. If you try to use the standard Windows
operating system to work with the bitcoins, you will find that you run into all
kinds of problems and your computer system will become very unstable.
To sum up, the bitcoins work like a digital cash system
where instead of holding large amounts of digital cash, you have work that
needs to be completed in order to release the funds. There are no third-party
administrators that will take responsibility for the work that needs to be done
when you initiate a transaction, and therefore, you run the risk of having your
account frozen until the work is complete. The safest solution is for you to
use a software bundle that allows you to use the network without having to
worry about these complications. I recommend looking for a bundle called
"Bitcoin Expatriate" to help you work around any problems that you
may encounter.
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