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Author Topic: Wary of Bitcoin? A guide to some other cryptocurrencies  (Read 3846 times)

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Personally i think this whole bitcoin stuff is pretty confusing and insane.. but then i feel the same way about traditional currency, the stock market, and monetary policy.  None of it makes a lick of sense to me -- it all seems like a bad joke or a carny game.

But the technology and issues it raises are quite interesting.  Here's a nice new article discussing some of the new "alternatives" to bitcoin:

http://arstechnica.c...er-cryptocurrencies/

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