Bitcoin: a Survey on Finance, Technology and Environment

Abstract

Bitcoin has had a volatile journey since it was launched in 2009, the current main impressions of Bitcoin are mostly negative, resource-consuming, endangering financial security, and even associated with crimes, such as fraud, money laundering, and so on. However, this paper analyzes the origin of bitcoin and with the creative combination of existing computer technology, the construction of a complete transaction system was founded by Bitcoin, which has caused a huge impact in the fields of finance, technology and the environment. We have to acknowledge its shortcomings and deficiencies in some aspects, On the other hand, realize that Bitcoin has brought great progress and reflection in the fields of finance, technology, environment, etc.