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KEVIN ROOSE, NY Times: Technology
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 4:47pm

The Shift: I Was Wrong About Bitcoin. Here’s Why.

Our columnist predicted in 2013 that Bitcoin, then a new digital currency, would soon die. He points to five assumptions he got wrong.

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