What Is Cryptocurrency?

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With crypto currencies, generally, the way it works is there's some decentralized group of parties that together are effectively voting on what happens step by step. The goal in the end is to create a system of payments and sending information and money back and forth that doesn't rely on one central party. Buti give your how you describe to someone's grandmother or grandfather what crypto is? Yes.

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