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Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years

January 2, 2017 by · Leave a Comment 

By Jemima Kelly LONDON (Reuters) – Digital currency bitcoin kicked off the new year by jumping above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125 percent climb in 2016. Bitcoin – a web-based “cryptocurrency” that has no central authority, relying instead on thousands of computers across the world that validate transactions and add new bitcoins to the system – jumped 2.5 percent to $1,022 on the…

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Bitcoin has a governance problem, no matter who created it

May 6, 2016 by · Leave a Comment 

The latest bickering erupted after Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright promised to prove he was the mysterious creator of bitcoin – which allows users to move money across the world quickly and anonymously – but then said on Thursday he could not provide further evidence to back this up. Wright stopped short of reneging on his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, assumed to be a pseudonym for the person or people who launched the digital cryptocurrency in 2009. Many …

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Bitcoin has a governance problem, no matter who created it