https://www.theregreview.orgEvery time I raise the cryptocurrency subject with friends and family, I notice a minor change in their facial expression; the one telling you that they gave up trying to understand, but they’ll listen to you anyway.Amongst the ones who don’t understand cryptocurrencies, there are three types of individuals: The willing, the stubborn, and the uninterested. And as you can imagine, this article is dedicated to the willing, because the stubborn won’t want to listen, and the uninterested is, well, uninterested.This gets us to a question you would naturally bring up, and that would make for an interesting insight:If the individual is willing to learn about cryptocurrency and its mechanics, how come he or she still doesn’t understand it? Especially nowadays, when we have explanatory articles, podcasts, and videos flooding the internet?The answer is simple; talking about technology is talking about something that has no emotions — something we, Humans, can hardly relate to — which explains our difficulty to understand it. And so, the author who will be able to win the mind of its readers/viewers will be the one able to embellish technology concepts with storytelling and give meaning to technical words.But hey, enough with the small talk, and let’s get down to why you’re really here…1. What is cryptocurrency?Let me put it this way;If fiat currencies ($, €, ¥, etc.) are used by Humans to pay amongst themselves, cryptocurrencies are used by computers to pay amongst themselves.The major difference is that fiat money is controlled by a central bank — since they are the ones who print it — and its respective government, whereas cryptocurrencies have no central authority.But Jon ?! Since we’re the ones who build and use the computers, doesn’t that means that we can control cryptocurrency?Yes and no. About 12 years ago, in 2009,…