Added: There are financial aspects of bitcoin too.
With Bitcoin At $60k, Satoshi Nakamoto Is Now One Of The 20 Richest People On The Planet on March 13, 2021.
Satoshi Nakamoto is the anonymous "entity" who created bitcoin.
Two papers with real world monetary implications:
Two Bitcoins at the Price of One? Double-Spending Attacks on Fast Payments in Bitcoin
Don't know if this is fixed in the current implementation.
An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System
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At the time of theft, the stolen Bitcoins had a market value of approximately half a million U.S. dollars. We chose this case study to illustrate the potential risks to the anonymity of a user (the thief) who has good reason to remain anonymous.
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Bitcoin related news from popular media.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/03/mtgox_to_customers_your_call_is_important_to_us_not/
MtGox declared bankruptcy last week, taking more than $US400m worth of Bitcoin with it.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/04/bitcoin_bank_flexcoin_shuts_down_after_hackers_strike/
Bitcoin bank Flexcoin pulls plug after cyber-robbers nick $610,000 Your money is gone. Kthxbye