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Topic: [2014-03-07] Wash. Post: Bitcoin refuses to flip: Virtual currency stays strong (Read 839 times)

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Without all these heists, accidents, frauds, Joe-Sixpacks probably would never realize that Bitcoin is idependent of any individual/organization.
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Bitcoin refuses to flip: Virtual currency stays strong despite bankruptcies, gyrating rates

Bitcoin is virtual money that cuts out banks and credit card companies, and has gotten more popular recently. Here's what you need to know about the original cryptocurrency.

By Craig Timberg, Sunday, March 9, 1:09 AM E-mail the writer

Future generations of Bitcoin billionaires may someday look back on 2014 with knowing smiles. Here was a year when thefts spread, exchanges collapsed, rates gyrated like a teenager’s moods. And yet the buying of bitcoins showed no signs of abating.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/bitcoin/2014/03/08/0b1ad2f0-a631-11e3-8466-d34c451760b9_story.html
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