Wary of Bitcoin? A guide to some other cryptocurrencies

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It might have passed you by, but an essential part of the Internet’s infrastructure took a heavy knock last week. The Silk Road—you know, the website where you can buy any drug imaginable—was subjected to a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

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