The Stream - Banking on the Bitcoin boom

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On The Stream: The potential benefits and risks of the internet's most popular digital currency, Bitcoin.

Thumbnail: A hand holds a model Bitcoin on January 13, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. (Getty/Thomas Trutschel/Photothek)