From Whitepaper in 2008, bitcoin has turned into a revolutionary technology for crypto-currencies and block-making, creating financial freedom. Now, almost in 10 years, and the market is full of crypts, but how exactly has the world changed the cryptocurrency?

There were many promises and potential opportunities in the field of crypto-currency, but at least half of them have been achieved? Blockade conquered the world, what influence does it have? Is Bitcoin an unlimited, lightning-fast and cheap currency, which he intended to become? And what about accepting crypto?

In the growing market of crypto-currency transactions, tremendous progress has been made; However, there are also many unjustified expectations that have not been achieved during the years of excitement.

Bitcoin as a currency
The first line in Whiptepere, written by Satoshi Nakamoto, defines the fundamental aspects of the digital currency:

A pure one-time version of electronic cash will allow you to send online payments directly from one side to the other, bypassing financial institutions.
Nevertheless, even the hottest fans of bitcoin can hardly recognize bitcoin as a useful digital currency in its present form. Cryptocurrency has undergone a number of significant changes in 2017, starting with UASF, which was adopted despite the cancellation of the hardcore of the blockade of the most popular cryptocurrency on August 1 during SegWit2x.

Of course, the appointment of bitcoin is determined democratically by its users, but the principles that guided the first cryptocurrency made it difficult for its pioneer of digital currencies, which, as expected, had to produce the world revolution alone.

This does not mean that everything will not change. The Lightning network is already running in test mode, and it will provide an opportunity for new changes, similar to those that in 2017 promoted bitcoin forward, increasing its popularity and acceptance.

Block
When bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies broke beyond the mainstream, participants in financial institutions began actively denying the potential of bitcoin to stop its growth, but it was difficult for them to say anything about the technology of blockades.

The volume and capabilities of blocking technology are almost endless - and the number of ICO's trying to use this technology to solve even the most diverse problems proves this.

However, despite the fact that Microsoft uses blocking technology and banks use Ripple, there is not much real work with blocking technology yet. Blokchejn yet has not found a border of the applicability. The possibilities of reliable, anonymous, unchanged data storage suggest so many use cases that not all of them have been disclosed yet.