“Independent merchants use it to receive online payments directly from customers, WikiLeaks uses it to dodge financial barricades, and drug users use Bitcoin to shop anonymously on the Internet’s black market. But not everything works smoothly. At a conference this month in London, Bitcoin’s core developers and many of those who are building applications to make it more user-friendly confronted the currency’s setbacks of the past year and planned a course forward intended to elevate it from a niche technophile currency into one that competes with physical money on all levels.”
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