Robert Küfner says: Whoever invests in bitcoin must be willing to lose everything. He himself could not recommend anyone to put savings in such a highly speculative product. Robert Küfner also says: The bitcoin was best thing that could happen to him.
A December evening in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, upper end of Schönhauser Allee. The spacious apartment does not belong to him. An employee of his company lives here for a few months for interim rent, Küfner will only stay twice, because he is coming from Tokyo and will soon continue to Greece. He has not been a permanent resident for years, he is more flexible. Just laptop on dining table, that's his.
"If I used to talk about my work, that didn't interest anyone," says Küfner. But since bitcoin has scored 20,000 in a year from 1,000 US dollars per unit and is constantly mentioned in "Day Show", everything is different. and Robert Küfner, 29 years, is a multimillionaire.
The one holding bitcoin for currency of future. The ors for a speculative object, with which very many people will soon lose a lot of money. So as soon as bubble bursts. Robert Küfner is not sure if a bubble exists at all: "What happens here will definitely stay. Simply because it makes sense. " A virtual currency that can be pushed around world, from person to person, anonymously and without intermediary banks. Whose course is regulated solely by supply and demand. is excluded from inflation, because re are simply no institutions such as central banks that could print out number of money. "What a brilliant idea."
Robert Küfner calls Coinmarketcap.com, site familiar to him on internet like no or. It lists course of Bitcoins, but also or crypto that have been created in recent years: Ripple, Ereum, Cardano, Litecoin, Dash... The screen of his laptop has Küfner set to night mode, orwise his eyes will burn. "Crypto is first I think of waking up in morning, and last one before I fall asleep." And in between? He doesn't actually do much else. Küfner thinks briefly. "I used to like to wander."
Many founders and programmers live in BerlinBerlin is considered one of centers of global crypto scene. Küfner says: "It is capital par excellence." Because many programmers live here, also founders of currencies such as Erium, Iota and Lisk. Because a dozen meetings are held each week, in which interested parties can exchange ideas. Spoken is mostly English. Robert Küfner says sentences like "This is by far biggest crypto-currency" or "last year was over--top-crazy".
He learned about existence of Bitcoins eight years ago, in an article on website of "Vice" magazine. At that time, a unit cost 20 cents. An eighty thousandth of today's value. In article, thing about Bitcoins could end badly, but perhaps also become quite big, and Küfner thought: I want to be re.
He grew up in Remscheid near Düsseldorf, Bergisches land. After school he did not know where to go, so he first enrolled in Cologne for business administration. He was not diligent. But all more enthusiastic when it started with crypto.
He never bought a single bitcoin. Because re is still a second way to get hold of it. All transactions that have ever been made with this currency are archived in a huge, ever-growing database that can be viewed by anyone. A chain strung blocks, so-called Blockchain. A new data packet is added every ten minutes. Anyone who is allowed to put this into world decides by a complicated calculation procedure, which starts every ten minutes from beginning – and which must perform all candidates who want to cooperate in Blockchain. It takes a lot of computers, and it takes power. If you complete procedure first, and you can extend chain for all valid chains by anor piece, you will receive some Bitcoins for reward.
Date Of Update: 04 January 2018, 12:02
