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Why It’s Time To Come Down On Bitcoin

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Its creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, gave it all of the qualities of cash, but in a digital format: peer-to-peer transfer of a currency in the absence of any intermediary that is pretty much anonymous — only wallet IDs are shared. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. The Crypto Has No Clothes. In concept. The Need for a Balanced View.