Recode Daily: Bitcoin turns 10, Apple’s first $100 billion quarter?

Bitcoin was born 10 years ago, when a person or group using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto released a nine-page white paper describing a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system.” After a few years as mainly a techie project, the digital currency broke into the mainstream around 2013, and looked like it was on the path to broad acceptance, if not inevitability. In the past decade, bitcoin has become a source of fascination for investors, speculators, true believers and skeptics around the world. What it hasn’t become, though, is the one thing it was built to be — a payments system. [Paul Vigna / The Wall Street Journal]

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