Cryptocurrencies have become all the rage over the last few months, especially after the meteoric rise in the price of Bitcoin back in December 2017. It used to be that cryptocurrency investing was the realm of experts and savvy investors. But because of Bitcoin's massive success and popularity after December 2017, things have changed. It has now expanded to include even the smallest and least experienced of investors. Before going into the details of hodling and cryptocurrencies in general, it would be very beneficial for you to get a glimpse of how cryptocurrencies became what they are now.
Brief History of Cryptocurrencies
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It all began in the 1990s when American cryptographer, David Chaum, created what was considered as the first kind of online money in the Netherlands: DigiCash. He created DigiCash as an extension of an encryption algorithm that was considered popular during those times, which was RSA. The technology he created, together with its eCash product, was able to generate a huge amount of attention from the media. It became so popular that Microsoft
Corporation tried to buy DigiCash for $180 million with the intention of placing DigiCash on every computer in the world that ran on the Windows operating system. One of the crucial mistakes Chaum and his company made was to reject Microsoft's $180 million offer and earn thenire of De Nederlandsche Bank (Netherland's Central Bank), which was the Netherland's primary monetary authority. All of those crucial mistakes eventually led to the demise of DigiCash in 1998, when the company went bankrupt.
The second generation of Internet money was borne from the learning experiences of DigiCash.
Companies from this generation came up with alternative payment solutions and money systems that were also Internet-based but with small but important changes. Of these companies, the clear winner was PayPal. The reason why PayPal trumped its competition was its ability to give users what they really wanted in the first place, which was money on the web browser platforms they were already familiar with. PayPal - unlike its peers back in the day - was able to give its users the ability to transfer money to and from merchants and buyers, respectively, using a seamless peer-to-peer money transfer system. PayPal's massive success is very obvious by the fact that next only to credit cards, it's the most popular means by which to transact online.
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