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29 November 2017
Bitcoin's bull market, big-beaked birds, rocks on the move and more
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Bitcoin in the balance: The troublesome quest to reinvent money
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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?
Politics chat on Reddit reads like it was written by 6-year-olds
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You’re not imagining it: after 2016, the sophistication and civility of political discourse on sites like Reddit dropped from secondary school reading levels to barely literate
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