Bitcoin refuses to flip: Virtual currency stays strong despite bankruptcies, gyrating rates
Bitcoin is virtual money that cuts out banks and credit card companies, and has gotten more popular recently. Here's what you need to know about the original cryptocurrency.
By Craig Timberg, Sunday, March 9, 1:09 AM E-mail the writer
Future generations of Bitcoin billionaires may someday look back on 2014 with knowing smiles. Here was a year when thefts spread, exchanges collapsed, rates gyrated like a teenager’s moods. And yet the buying of bitcoins showed no signs of abating.
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