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Cryptocurrencies, also digital currencies, are under the microscope as never before. On Tuesday the blockchain (区块链)supporting bitcoin (比特币)is 1 in two, as members of the bitcoin community unhappy with the digital currency’s direction set up a(n) 2 called Bitcoin Cash. However, Bitcoin Cash will likely only be worth a part of bitcoin. The original digital currency is 3 at around $2,778,39, but future values for Bitcoin Cash are just $ 288.35, or 0.103 of a bitcoin.

Last week the Russian national Alexander Vinnik, who4 cheated early adopters of millions of pounds’ worth of bitcoins, including funds obtained from the hack (非法侵入)of failed bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, was arrested in Greece.

Vinnik was described by the US Department of Justice as the operator of BTC-e, an exchange used to trade bitcoin since 2011, which was used to transfer more than $4bn for people involved in crimes.Greeek police claimed that the 38-year-old was “an internationally 5 ‘mastermind’ of a crime organistation”.

US authorities also linked him to the failure of Mt Gox, the Japan-based bitcoin exchange that 6 in 2014 after being hacked. Vinnik “obtained” funds from the hack and transferred them through BTC-e and Tradehill, another San Francisco-based exchange he owned, according to court documents.

The Russian authorities have become progressively concerned about potential for digital currencies to be used for illegal means, but remain 7 about whether it is a currency or a financial property. Elvira Nabiullina, governor of the Russian central bank, he said it should be 8 as a digital property. “We don’t consider that bitcoin can be considered as a(n) 9 currency,” she told CNBC.

But the country’s deputy finance minister, Alexey Moiseev, recently said the authorities hoped to recognise bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a legal financial instrument next year in a (n) 10 to handle Vinnik-style money transferring.

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How to be a demanding reader

The rules for reading yourself to sleep are easier to follow than are the rules for staying awake while reading. Get into bed in a comfortable position, make sure the light is 1 enough to cause slight eyestrain, choose a book that is either terribly difficult or terribly boring-in any event, one that you do not really care whether you read or not-and you will be asleep in a few minutes. Those who are experts in relaxing with a book do not have to wait for 2. A comfortable chair in the library will do any time.

Unfortunately, the rules for keeping awake do not consist in doing just the 3. It is possible to keep awake while reading in a comfortable chair or even in bed, and people have been known to 4 their eyes by reading late in light too dim. What kept the famous 5readers awake? One thing certainly—it made a difference to them, a great difference, whether or not they read the book they had in hand.

Whether you manage to keep awake or not depends in large part on your goal in reading. If your aim in reading is to profit from it—to 6 somehow in mind or spirit—you have to keep awake. That means reading as actively as possible. It means making an effort—an effort for which you expect to be 7.

Good books, fiction or nonfiction, deserve such reading. To use a good book as a helper to fall asleep is pure waste. To fall asleep or, what is the same, to let your mind wander during the hours you planned to devote to reading for profit—that is, 8 for understanding—is clearly to defeat your own 9.

But the sad fact is that many people who can distinguish between profit and pleasure—between understanding, on the one hand, and entertainment or the mere satisfaction of curiosity, on the other hand—nevertheless 10 to carry out their reading plans. They can’t make it even if they know which books give which. The reason is that they do not know how to be demanding readers, how to keep their mind on what they are doing by making it do the work without which no profit can be earned.

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