Data Security Is Becoming the Sparkle in Bitcoin - NYTimes.com

Excerpt from a Bitcoin market dynamics snapshot

"As Bitcoin’s price has declined over the last year, critics have been quick to declare the virtual currency dead. Bitcoin’s true value, though, might be not in the currency itself but in the engine that makes it possible. Underlying Bitcoin — created as a way to make payments directly, anonymously and outside government control — is the block chain, a decentralized database that is driven by cryptography."

Data Security Is Becoming the Sparkle in Bitcoin - NYTimes.com