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Bitcoin is the name of a group of peer-to-peer payment networks that serve as an open-source form of digital currency that was originally introduced in 2009 by a software developer with the alias of 'Satoshi Nakamoto." Bitcoin currency is created as rewards to "miners" for providing the computing power to solve difficult math problems to maintain the "blockchain" of internet transactions in the currency. Unlike online credit cards and PayPal systems that allow buyers to claim their money back, bitcoin permanently transfers value. The bitcoin cyber-economy compassed of merchants, users, service providers, and startup enterprises has flourished for the past...

Former AZ Gov. Fife Symington has told a UFO investigator making a documentary that he always believed that the mysterious "Phoenix lights," which appeared in a V shape in the sky on March 13, 1997, were extraterrestrial. Symington, a former Air Force captain, told the Arizona Daily Star, "I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people. I don't know why people would ridicule it."The Associated Press reports: Symington told CNN the craft he saw ... was...