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Gold Rush
February 25, 2015
Nathan Schneider
After the Bitcoin Gold Rush
“Mining” is the engine that keeps the Bitcoin network working, but it has swelled into a resource-hungry, capital-intensive, centralized syndicate. Is the Internet's native currency worth all the effort?
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