How much would you be willing to pay for a cone of ice cream at the pier on a sunny day out? £2? £5? Or even £10? What about an apartment in Hove with a view over the Channel? 200k, 500k or maybe even a million pounds?
How much you value an object is, at its core, subjective. And so is how much you are willing to pay for it. But what about a piece of code? Not your average four-digit computer password, I’m talking about binary code – a computer’s language. Right now, people are paying over £40,000 for a digital entry into a log called blockchain to own lines made up of zeroes and ones. I’m referring to Bitcoin, the digital currency that shakes up today’s financial world.…
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BN1 (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2021