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Bitcoin Breaks $9,000 In Another All-Time High

The price of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin has risen more than 12% in the last week, moving past $9,000 early......

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Bitcoin peaks above $5,000 for first time

Bitcoin has crossed the $5,000 (£3,862) threshold for the first time....

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Kim Dotcom demos micro-payment service to help stop piracy

Using Bitcoin would let people make anonymous payments quickly, but the technology is not geared up to make millions of payments a minute......

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Bitcoin edhe në Shqipëri

Bitcon ka bërë të ditur se mania e monedhës virtuale ka ardhur dhe në Shqipëri......

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Barbarians at the Monetary Gate

Instead, cryptocurrencies function based on the willingness of people engaged in transactions to treat them as valuable....

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Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism

Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead....

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How to mine Bitcoin on Mac

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency - anonymous digital money, essentially, that you can create on your computer. We look at how to mine Bitcoin on Mac, and discuss whether it's a good idea......

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Changing the world without taking power? Bitcoin and the challenges of consensus

Bitcoin could provide a more democratic alternative for managing the economy, relying on objective mathematical tools, rather than economists with a free market bias. But there are obstacles along the way. ...

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A year in a word: Bitcoin

The Bitcoin is a currency based on cryptographic principles; it was created by a pseudonymous programmer, or programmers, called Satoshi Nakamoto. New Bitcoins are “mined” and the entire system is maintained by a decentralised peer-to-peer database recording every transaction in the history of the currency. ...

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