2017-07-01 Barron's.com - Beyond Bitcoin: Blockchain Will Change Banking

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The hottest in­vest­ment of the first half of the year wasn’t Ama­zon.­com, Net­flix, or even Tesla. In fact, your broker prob­a­bly isn’t pitch­ing it, and it is barely even rec­og­nized by the Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion. Yet cryp­tocur­ren­cies—the most fa­mous of which is Bit­coin—are shoot­ing out the lights.
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It’s easy to dis­miss the digi­tal cur­rency as an out­landish, even dan­ger­ous, fad. Don’t.
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http://www.barrons.com/articles/beyond-bitcoin-how-blockchain-is-changing-banking-1498890463?mod=BOL_hp_highlight_1

(Barron's is published by Dow Jones who publishes the WSJ)