Breaking the chains.

The article discusses the dispute over how to scale digital currency that is considered as a bitter conflict between Chinese miners and Western developers. The recognition of bitcoin as a global platform for hundreds of startups, offering services from trading the currency to providing market data a...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 424; no. 9051; pp. 61 - 64
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 7/29/2017
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