Whois & Analysis for bitcoinmagazine.com

Bitcoin Magazine is one of the original news and print magazine publishers specializing in Bitcoin and digital currencies.

Bitcoin Magazine began publishing in 2012, and was founded by Vitalik Buterin and Mihai Alisie.

It is currently owned and operated by BTC Media in Nashville, Tennessee.

A blockchain – originally block chain – is a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of ordered records called blocks.

Each block contains a timestamp and a link to a previous block.

By design, blockchains are inherently resistant to modification of the data — once recorded, the data in a block cannot be altered retroactively.

Through the use of a peer-to-peer network and a distributed timestamping server, a blockchain database is managed autonomously.

Blockchains are "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way.

The ledger itself can also be programmed to trigger transactions automatically.".

A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange using cryptography to secure the transactions and to control the creation of additional units of the currency.

Cryptocurrencies are a subset of alternative currencies, or specifically of digital currencies.

Information is that which informs.

In other words, it is the answer to a question of some kind.

It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts.

As it regards data, the information's existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer (it exists beyond an event horizon, for example), while in the case of knowledge, the information requires a cognitive observer.

Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it.

The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 B.C), though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development.