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Is Bitcoin Digital Currency REAL Money? Introduced in 2009, Bitcoins are termed open source crypto-currency. Bitcoins are not backed by a government, central bank, or the FDIC—and when shares of the Bitcoin recently jumped over the $100 mark, many people started asking a lot of questions. |
