Brief summary of the most frequent questions about bitcoin.
1.- What is bitcoin?
A fully distributed virtual currency, without the need for a central entity to issue and control it.
2.- What is it for?
It serves as a standard framework for conducting electronic transactions person to person in a network of peers and peers, without servers and without the need for intervention by a third party.
3.- Where to use them?
Nowadays you can buy almost everything you want using bitcoin. You can pay for tickets on Expedia, buy computers on Dell.com or newegg.com, furniture and household items on Overstock.com and even buy directly on amazon.com with a discount of up to 20% using services such as brawker.com or purse .io. And every day there are more ways to use bitcoin to buy goods and services.
5.- How to obtain them?
With Bitcoin there is no coin issuer, distributed computers that ensure that transactions are correct get, from time to time, coins as a reward. This is called mining, and it is the way in which money is created with Bitcoin.