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Why Academics Love Bitcoin – and Crypto

For academics, bitcoin, and more broadly crypto, is an exciting space where the ideas they write up in papers actually get built and tested.

By Bailey Reutzel, Evan Engel

Updated Sep 13, 2021, 9:17 a.m. Published Jun 10, 2019, 1:00 a.m. 1 min read

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