The digital currency has caused any number of headaches for law enforcement. Now entrepreneurs and academics are scrambling to build a better version.
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Extance, A. The future of cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and beyond. Nature 526, 21–23 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/526021a
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