It can be hard to find unbiased education among the banter of promoters and investors who stand to benefit if you choose to invest in the projects they’re backing.
Cryptocurrency was initially conceived as a way of making international trade easier. And with less government intervention were seen as attractive among early Bitcoin proponents.
All cryptocurrency transactions are recorded on a blockchain public ledger. Transaction information gets stored in “blocks” that can be “chained” together to create a system with infinite memory, where the name originates.