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Communications of the ACM, Volume 57, Issue 10

Pages 22 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/2661047

Published: 23 September 2014 Publication History

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Speculating on how the Bitcoin economy might evolve.

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1. Applied computing
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2. Social and professional topics
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Communications of the ACM Volume 57, Issue 10

October 2014

99 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/2661061

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