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Why São Paulo Wants to Pay for Infrastructure with Cryptocurrency

The Brazilian state wants to pay for feasibility studies with a token designed for the construction industry. Can such a coin achieve network effect?

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Housing or Dotcom: Which Bubble Does Cryptocurrency Mania Resemble?

It may be fair to compare what cryptocurrency and blockchains are going through to the 1990s dotcom bubble, but not to the 2000s housing bubble.

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6 Types of Businesses Bitcoin Will Enable for the First Time

With digital currencies spawning brand new types of companies never conceived before, here are six growing business sectors.

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Fixing Bitcoin's shaky exchange infrastructure

Do Bitcoin exchanges need to decentralise to survive - and if so, what will make the newcomers successful?

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What happens to Bitcoin if the lights go out?

If mobile phone communications, the internet or the power grid should fail -- whatever the reason -- Bitcoin could have a problem.

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