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Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years
January 2, 2017 by publisher · Leave a Comment
By Jemima Kelly LONDON (Reuters) – Digital currency bitcoin kicked off the new year by jumping above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125 percent climb in 2016. Bitcoin – a web-based “cryptocurrency” that has no central authority, relying instead on thousands of computers across the world that validate transactions and add new bitcoins to the system – jumped 2.5 percent to $1,022 on the…
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Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years