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Why Bitcoin has value

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 57, Issue 5

Pages 30 - 32

https://doi.org/10.1145/2594288

Published: 01 May 2014 Publication History

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Evaluating the evolving controversial digital currency.

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Why Bitcoin has value
1. Applied computing
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2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business

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Communications of the ACM Volume 57, Issue 5

May 2014

110 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/2594413

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Moshe Y. Vardi
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY

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