Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python
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Uses of bitcoin

There are a lot of advantages to using bitcoin. Some of them are as follows:

  • Fast and easy payments: It's extremely easy and fast to make payments with bitcoin. You do not have to worry about which software to use. The bitcoin network never sleeps, even on holidays. Sending payments internationally is also very easy; there are no banks to make anyone wait three business days, no extra fees for making an international transfer, and no special limitations on the minimum or maximum amount one can send.
  • Privacy: Payment can be made using bitcoin without sharing any personal info; one does not need to sign up or share any card information. In fact, it is even possible to send a payment without revealing one's identity, almost like you can with physical money. However, take note that some effort may be required to protect privacy.
  • Negligible transaction fees: There are very little or minimal transaction fees while making payments with bitcoin. There are no fees to receive bitcoins, and having many wallets allows you to control how large a fee to pay when spending. Most wallets have reasonable default fees, and higher fees can encourage faster confirmation of your transactions. Fees are unrelated to the amount transferred, so it's possible to send 100,000 bitcoins for the same fee it costs to send one bitcoin.
  • Secure: Bitcoins are created and held electronically, but there is no credit card number involved that someone can steal as nobody can charge you money on your behalf. The transactions are made using military-grade cryptography and are highly confidential. Bitcoin will provide full access over your money and a high level of protection against almost all types of fraudulent works which involves certain steps.
  • Multisignature: Bitcoin's multisignature feature allows businesses full control over their spending by allowing bitcoins to be spent only if a subset of a group of people authorize the transaction.
  • Great for developers: For developers, bitcoin is the simplest of all payment systems. There are many third-party payment processing services that provide APIs. We don't need to store bitcoins on our server. If you don't use any third-party APIs, you can integrate a bitcoin node directly into your applications, allowing it to become your own bank and payment processor.