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Technology

Bitcoin in the balance: The troublesome quest to reinvent money

Cryptocurrencies are surging to record highs – but with a civil war raging inside bitcoin and the big banks muscling in, can they fulfil their promise?

Features

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Technology

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

News

Health

Austerity cuts to NHS blamed for 120,000 excess deaths

News

Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill

Earth

Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill

News

Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy

Earth

Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy

News

A selection of beers and ciders

Health

Why we should celebrate Scotland’s minimum alcohol price plan

Comment

The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts

Earth

The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts

Culture

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Technology

Bitcoin: what a waste of resources

Leader

A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

Life

A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

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Earth

We all get poorer every time a climate disaster strikes

Long-term economic effects of global warming could be far greater than thought, making many countries poorer and hurting even those of us spared direct impacts

Insight

Technology

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

News

Technology

The stock market is run by wild robots we don't fully control

Insight

Humans

Father of 'nudge' psychology wins economics Nobel

News

Technology

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

Analysis