Alright! We covered some important topics involving a great deal of multi-disciplinary science. The good news is that most of this science has been built into the Bitcoin architecture in an elegant and effective way by Satoshi, so that the system runs smoothly. The only thing you need to take care of, personally as users, is to protect your private keys. Please, do make sure you fully understand the importance of this for your own financial health!
Now, we are ready to move on to the next brilliant engineering solution that powers Bitcoin—the Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm.
