BEIJING AND LONDON: The digital currency may avoid a split, but the causes of a bitter conflict between rival camps remain. IN DIFFERENT circumstances the two people could be good friends. Each is rather shy and very smart. And each is passionate about bitcoin, a digital currency. One invented hashcash, which foreshadowed components of the crypto-currency; the other is the author of the first Chinese translation of the white paper in which Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive creator of bit-coin, first described its inner workings.
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