Bitcoin: currency of the future or just another type of tulip mania?

It was one of the runners-up for the word of the year as chosen by Oxford Dictionaries; it has received a partial blessing from Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, but a warning from US law enforcement agencies; it has soared in value by 5,000 per cent s

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