How Is The Bitcoin Price Determined?
In order to incentivize the distributed network of people verifying bitcoin transactions , a fee is attached to each transaction. The fee is awarded to whichever miner adds the transaction to a new block. Fees work on a first-price auction system, where the higher the fee attached to the transaction, the more likely a miner will process that transaction first. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are like the email of the financial world. The currency doesn’t exist in a physical […]