A delegation of American executives flew to Beijing in April for a secret meeting just blocks from Tiananmen Square. They had come to court the new kingmakers in one of the strangest experiments in money the world has seen: the virtual currency known as bitcoin.
Against long odds, and despite an abstruse structure, in which supercomputers "mine" the currency via mathematical formulas, bitcoin has become a multibillion-dollar industry. It has attracted major investments from Silicon ..
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Topic: [2016-06-02] How China took center stage in bitcoin's civil war (Read 222 times)
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