Stop Thinking Bitcoin is Just a New Kind of Currency

Stop Thinking Bitcoin is Just a New Kind of Currency

This article is a guest post written byValery Kholodkov, Lead Researcher at AVG Innovation Lab in Amsterdam. Valery is on the forefront of AVG's privacy-related research and he is constantly looking into how emerging technologies impact user privacy. It's no secret that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are showing us brand new opportunities in the....


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