Cryptocurren

cies
Table of contents
Understandin Storing
01 g the 04 cryptocurrencies
underlying
technology
What are Types of
02 cryptocurren 05 cryptocurrencie
cies? s
Mining
03 06 Bitcoin and Ethereum
Table of contents
Pros and
07 cons

08 The future of
crpytocurrencies
 01
Understanding the underlying
technology
Legders
• Ledger – record keeping system that tracks and maintains the history
of financial transactions

• Centralized ledger vs decentralized ledger

• Nodes
Blockchain
• Distributed ledger

• Chain of data blocks

Validation systems
• „Proof of work”

• „Proof of stake”
 02
What are cryptocurrencies?
What are cryptocurrencies and how to they
work?
• Digital (virtual) currencies

• Cryptography

• Blockhain – underlying technology

• Bitcoin blockchain, Ethereum blockhain

03
Mining
Mining
• Complex mathematical problems

• Rewards
 04
Storing cryptocurrenices
Wallets
• Private key

• Public key

• „Hot wallets” vs „Cold wallets”

• Custodial vs non-custodial wallets

„Hot wallets”

Desktop wallet Web wallet Mobile wallet

„Cold wallets”

Paper wallet Hardware wallet

 05
Types of cryptocurrencies
Coins and tokens
• „Altcoins”

• Tokens

• NFTs
 06
Bitcoin and Etherum
 Most famous cryptocurrencies

• Satoshi Nakamoto - 2009 first • Vitalik Buterin – 2015 ->

cryptocurrency -> Bitcoin Ethereum
 07
Pros and cons
Pros and cons of cryptocurrencies
• Pros: faster and cheaper transactions, allow for more control over
your own money (no central authority governing them), strong
security measures

• Cons: very volatile, how they are regulated, potential for them to be
used for illegal activites
 08
Future of cryptocurrencies
What is the future looking like for
cryptocurrencies?
Thank
You!
A presentation by: Juraj Lovrinčević