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Cryptocurrency hack makes off with $500 million

Hackers broke into Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck and made off with $534 million-worth of a currency known as NEM

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Bitcoin's utopia has failed as big players hold all the power

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You may be making cryptocurrency for hackers without realising

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A new bitcoin Ponzi scheme or scam pops up almost every day

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Feedback: Look to the stars for your bitcoin horoscope

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2018 preview: Bitcoin and ICO bubbles are set to burst

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Bitcoin futures trading opens as cryptocurrency's price soars

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Bitcoin in the balance: The troublesome quest to reinvent money

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How do you link the world's blockchains? With another blockchain

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Bitcoin: what a waste of resources

The cryptocurrency’s insistence on meaningless computer tasks is outdated, profligate and holds the technology back

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Bitcoin mining uses more energy than Ecuador – but there’s a fix

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A house has been bought on the blockchain for the first time

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Blockchain-like ID may mean end of paper birth certificates

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New £10 note suggests that a cashless society is a long way off

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