2012-05-23 aljazeera.com - The currency of protest

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The currency of protest
People declare economic independence by establishing alternative currencies.

2012-05-23

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/currency-protest-0022217

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In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto released the BitCoin as an alternative form of currency traded and spent solely among the online community. It is one of the world's largest micro-currency markets which is backed by peer-to-peer computing instead of a central bank or government body. This is supposed to insure financial security without the threat of a monopoly.
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original bitcointalk discussion thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83323.0