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How to get rich off bitcoin — or lose it all while trying ...

The value of the digital currency -- or cryptocurrency -- is up about 15 times...

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Bitcoin isn’t the future of money — it’s either a Ponzi ...

Sometimes it's hard to tell whether Bitcoin is more like Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme.

Whatever it is, though, it isn't a currency. It's a tech stock . Each Bitcoin is really a share in a system that seems to make it cheaper to transfer things online--money, stocks, bonds, even the deed to your house--by cutting out the middleman. Well, kind of. Bitcoin doesn't remove the middleman so much...

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Five myths about bitcoin - The Washington Post

This month, bitcoin, the digital currency launched by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, hit a record price of $17,428.42 per coin. It got its own futures market at a traditional brokerage firm, and it even earned a joke in a recent "Saturday Night Live" sketch. Perhaps because of its complicated technical design, zealous community of advocates and famously mysterious founding story (its creator was...

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Bitcoin needs to scale by a factor of 1000 to compete with ...

Bitcoin needs to scale by a factor of 1000 to compete with Visa. Here's how to do it.

By Timothy B. Lee By Timothy B. Lee November 12, 2013 Follow @binarybits

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At the heart of Bitcoin is the blockchain, a global, shared record of every Bitcoin transaction that has ever occurred. It gets its name from the fact that every 10 minutes, on average, the peer-to-peer...

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Bitcoin is big. But fedcoin is bigger. - The Washington Post

Campbell R. Harvey is a finance professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

Over the past few weeks, investors have been flocking to bitcoin, the digital currency whose value has soared by about 2,000 percent in the past year alone. And while many economists are cautioning against excitement about bitcoin -- which is caught up in what may be one of the biggest speculative bubbles in...

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