What is Bitcoin?

In the first article of the series, we explored why Bitcoin deserves attention as an asset class. In the second and third articles, we discussed the nature of money, its properties, its evolution, and the flaws in our current monetary system—laying the groundwork for understanding Bitcoin.

Any revolutionary technology faces skepticism. It took time for people to embrace ordering everything from groceries to shoes on Amazon, though the concept was relatively easy to explain. Some technologies, however, are much harder to articulate.