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It breached $19,500! Things you might not know about ballistic bitcoin
The total value of all bitcoins released into the system so far has now reached as high as $283 billion.
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Regulate bitcoin
Ban on trading is impossible to enforce
Bitcoin jumps 1,000% in a year; call it the new 'Tulip Mania', say analysts
The cryptocurrency shows wild swings since Wednesday - within hours of crossing the $11,000-mark, plunges nearly 20% to $9,009 in less than 90 minutes, and then rises again to trade above $10,000
 "Bitcoin jumps 1,000% in a year; call it the new 'Tulip Mania', say analysts")
Bitcoin makes history; BoE deputy says it can't threaten world economy
The cryptocurrency has climbed 10-fold so far this year
Success of bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies just a bubble: Central bankers
Cryptocurrencies holders have a claim on a private, rather than a public entity, which could go bust or stop functioning
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Bitcoin hits all-time high of $8,197, almost 50% up in past 8 days
New high came after leading US payments company Square Inc said late last week that it had started allowing select customers to buy and sell bitcoins on its Cash app
World's biggest wealth manager says no to bitcoin
Bitcoin has split investors over the viability of the volatile cryptocurrency
Payments company Square tests bitcoin buying and selling
Square says its customers have shown an appetite for the 'alt-currency'
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Bitcoin: SC seeks Centre's response on plea to regulate virtual currency
The plea, filed through advocate P N Razdan, also sought responses from the Income Tax department and the Enforcement Directorate
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Why did bitcoin prices crash? 4 factors that determine its volatility
Economists have long had a notion that psychological factors affect investor decisions
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Bitcoin tumble erases $38 bn as rival cryptocurrency gains
The cryptocurrency has dropped 5.6% since late Friday, and at one point extended its slide from last week's record to as much as 29%
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Think Bitcoin's getting expensive? Try Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans turning to Bitcoin as local dollars collapse; Harare Bitcoin price almost twice as much as elsewhere in the world; cryptocurrencies used for overseas payments
Bitcoin trade to be hit in India? Govt may shut down cryptocurrency dealers
According to market experts, banning cryptocurrency dealers or exchanges would not work
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Bitcoin hits new all-time high of $6,450
CME Group Inc said it would provide a regulated trading venue for the cryptocurrency market
Your computer may be making Bitcoin for hackers
Spike in value of digital currencies gives cybercriminals a new way to earn money that is less disruptive than ransomware
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Crypto-fool's gold?
The long history of currency tells us that what the private sector innovates, the state eventually regulates and appropriates
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Why investors view bitcoin as a risky investment despite a ten-fold price surge
Bitcoin's total value, or market capitalisation, is close to $100 billion, bigger than US investment bank Morgan Stanley
Bitcoin nears $6,000; gains 500% in 2017
This comes just three days after bitcoin suffered its biggest one-day drop in a month on rising concern that regulators are increasingly targeting digital currencies
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Bitcoin can now buy you citizenship in the world's happiest countries
Vanuatu, a South Pacific archipelago of some 80 islands, will now let outsiders use the volatile cryptocurrency to apply for so-called investment citizenship
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Chinese investors bemoan govt's crackdown on bitcoin amid losses
Neighbouring country's central bank has asked virtual currency trading platforms in Beijing, Shanghai to cease market operations