Cryptocurrencies, or cryptos, are forms of digital, decentralized money not regulated by a government or central bank. Instead, cryptos use encryption techniques to generate, regulate and transfer their units. Cryptocurrencies are often held in virtual online wallets and used for peer-to-peer transactions or online stores that accept them.

Bitcoin was the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Created in 2009, Bitcoin uses blockchain
verification technology to secure and protect peer-to-peer transactions. Like other cryptocurrencies,
Bitcoin is decentralized and not regulated by a central bank or any one government. 

To trade cryptocurrency on the HELVETICFX, you must first be at Starter level or higher. Visit HELVETICFX and select the Log In button (upper right-hand corner).
After you have logged in to your account, you will be able to make trades on the Exchange. Navigate to the Markets page on the top left of the navigation bar. Select the market you want to trade in. Navigate to the pair you want to trade in (e.g. BTC/USDT), and select Trade. Navigate to the bottom right corner to find the Limit, Market, and Advanced order area. Select the type of order you want to trade with and fill in the necessary fields.

The blockchain is the vertebrae of the Bitcoin protocol and the glue that holds the network together. It is
simply a vast, distributed public ledger of account. It keeps track of every transaction ever made in the
network, and all transactions are time stamped and verified by network miners.
This is how it works: miners with specialized computers compete to solve mathematical puzzles with
other computers, and once they solve a puzzle they are awarded with some Bitcoin, and they also add a
“block” of completed transactions to the blockchain for future viewing and verifiability.
Once a block is added to the chain, the cycle repeats itself, and the computers continue to compete
to solve these difficult problems. Every transaction on the blockchain is completely transparent and
accounted for in its log. Anyone can see the public keys of any transaction they want (although there
are no names associated with
transactions). One could go all the way back and view the very first transactions ever made on the first
block ever created; this block was called the Genesis Block.

The original Bitcoin code was designed by an individual or group using the name Satoshi Nakamoto, under
MIT open source license. In 2008, Nakamoto outlined the idea behind Bitcoin in his white paper, which
scientifically described how the cryptocurrency would function.
Bitcoin is the first successful digital currency designed with trust in cryptography over central
authorities. Satoshi left the Bitcoin code in the hands of developers and the community in 2010. Thus
far hundreds of developers have added to the open source code throughout the years.