The separation and comparison sound like a good idea! Seems fitting to combine with safety and risks.

In terms of history I thought about beginning from the start, continuing with the mining+inflation and therefore the birth of new, more stable currencies. (don't know if I should include this for fun as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oatx83Gy8kE  note it's for a good cause as well hehe (1min22sec))

Then following with micropayments and future tendencies/potentials. So the past, the present and the future are covered.

I thought Bitcoin is the prime example for making the whole thing big and probably the main aspect to write about, like the GoPro of action cameras. But if I should write about Bitcoin exclusively I'm not sure if I'd run out of material more quickly, so I'll maybe need some more aspects/ideas to write about?

Well I figured both are digital/virtual currencies, money you can't touch, but which can also be earned, traded and it's value can vary over time. So it seemed kind of related and at least worth mentioning as a sub-item, since the target audience instead mostly consists of younger people, getting introduced to "authentic" digital money.

Media technology, so it's Science Engineering

Hello guys,

as a student I have to write my bachelor thesis now and I chose to write about virtual currencies, mainly Bitcoin!

Now as I'm fairly new to the topic and probably only scratched on the surface of the whole system so far I'd like to ask you for opinions, advice, impulses, etc. since many of you already have a lot of experience.

What topics would you think are interesting or crucial to write about? (Safety/Risks, History, Mining, Future Tendencies, Trading, Other currencies, Pay2Win currencies in games,...)

Have you read any interesting books or similar worth to take a good look at?

I'm very thankful for each response, since additionally asking some experts can't be wrong.