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What would you do with a bitcoin? Spend it on ? A flight, a night at the theatre or a birch-rod cleansing at a Russian bathhouse? How about a splurge on coffee beans, hand-made rugs, pet treats and pizza? The list of is growing.
Or maybe you鈥檒l just squirrel it away and watch how the rollercoaster unfolds. A bitcoin is worth about $230 at the time of writing. But its value is volatile, liable to spike or crash from one week to the next 鈥� and lately its price has been falling. Predictions for what one bitcoin will be worth in two or three years鈥� time range from tens of thousands of dollars to nothing at all. The stakes are still high for bitcoin鈥檚 pioneers.
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