The secret sauce is Bitcoin’s blockchain technology.

***Forget Bitcoin - the world will be revolutionised by blockhain, not necessarily cryptocurrency, says one observer from the NUS Business School.The furore over the future of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin has reached ever more frenzied peaks since the start of the year.
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