Bitcoin's journey from money laundering appeal to teaching the banks
http://www.afr.com/business/banking-and-finance/bitcoins-journey-from-money-laundering-appeal-to-teaching-the-banks-20151126-gl9gup
Bankers and economists are finding fresh virtues in the digital currency bitcoin at a time when the gold price is trading at close to six-year lows. So much so that the prominent American economist Bhagwan Chowdhry has nominated bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto for the 2016 Nobel Prize in economics.
Chowdhry, a professor of finance at UCLA, was asked by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to nominate a candidate for the prize, and chose Nakamoto because bitcoin "is nothing short of revolutionary".
Topic: [2015-11-27] Financial Review: Bitcoin's journey from money laundering appeal to (Read 180 times)
November 27, 2015, 03:33:49 AM
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