Cryptocurrency Traders Use Old Gold to Interest Islamic Investors

Dubai is the top center for gold trade in the Middle East. In Dubais old gold market, buyers from around the world argue over prices for jewelry. But in other parts of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the metal is becoming important in financial engin

AP 2011-05-24

1. Residents of a luxury building in New York City say they wouldn't know former IMF President Dominique Strauss-Kanh is under house arrest there, if it weren't for the media frenzy outside. He's expected to be here for a few days until another locat

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Like many American manufacturing towns, Massena, N.Y., has hemorrhaged jobs in the past decade. GM and Reynolds Metal closed. Aluminum company Alcoa downsized. But now Massena is banking on a new opportunity to boost its economy

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Corn-pone Opinions Mark Twain Fifty years ago, when I was a boy of fifteen and helping to inhabit a Missourian village on the banks of the Mississippi, I had a friend whose society was very dear to me because I was forbidden by my mother to partake o

SSS 2011-06-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Birds and sea turtles can migrate thousands of miles, by reading the Earth's magnetic cues. But we too might have magnetic sensing abilitiesin our eyes. So say

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今天我们要学的词是cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency加密货币。Switzerland's government has requested a report into the risks and opportunities of launching its own cryptocurrency. 瑞士政府要求有关部门就启用自己的加密货币的

EXPLORATIONS - National Cryptologic Museum

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Venezuelans Survive on Bitcoin In the last month, John Villar has bought plane tickets to Colombia, purchased medicine for his wife, and paid the employees of his business in Venezuela all in bitcoin. As Venezuelas national currency loses value, Vene

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By now, most people have heard of bitcoin. Bitcoin is a virtual currency that has had a huge rise in value during 2017. Bitcoin however is just one of many cryptocurrencies. A cryptocurrency is a kind of money that does not exist in the form of bills

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今天我们要学的词是postpone。 Postpone推迟。 Justin Bieber had to postpone his concert because he was sick, 贾斯汀.比伯因为生病，不得不推迟演唱会。We had to postpone the trip because of the hurricane, 由于飓风的影响

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The computer that solves the puzzle publishes its solution to the rest of the network and collects its reward: new bitcoins. 解开了谜题的计算机便把结果发布到互联网上，并获得新的比特币作为奖励。 And in the act of solv

TED演讲:货币的未来(5)

We're about to enter a new phase of money. 一种新的货币模式正在逐渐形成。 The future of money is programmable. 未来的货币是可以程序化的， When we combine software and currency, money becomes more than just a static unit of

经济学人:自由交流:疯狂，恐慌和ICO(3)

Human quirks also play a role. 人类的怪癖也起到一定的作用。 Robert Shiller, who helped create the subfield now known as behavioural finance (and won a Nobel prize), reckons that ideas about markets spread like an epidemic. 曾为如今以

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Even before worries surfaced that the currency could split in two over the disagreement, 甚至在货币可能分裂成两种的担忧显露出来之前， bitcoin holders started to diversify into some of the many other crypto-currencies, or alt. co

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Finance and Economics 财经 Crypto-Currencies: New Money 加密货币：新兴货币 Bitcoin, its imitators and the risk of a crypto-bubble. 比特币，其仿冒者，以及加密货币泡沫风险。 It is hard to predict when bubbles will pop, in