A Critic of Cryptocurrencies Says Bitcoin Needs To Be Burnt With Fire

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Tracy Alloway

Joe Weisenthal

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Nicholas Weaver, a Berkeley computer scientist who is well versed on the technology, argues that the entire space ought to be burnt down in a fire.

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