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Banks are finally starting to adopt cryptocurrencies

A customer uses a Barclays ATM in central London, July 23, 2010.  Regulators have been looking at how banks would withstand another recession in an exercise similar to one in the United States last year which helped restore bank sector confidence.  Some 91 lenders from 20 countries have faced the so-called stress tests. In Britain HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds and Barclays, are being examined.    REUTERS/Andrew Winning   (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS SPORT BASKETBALL POLITICS) - LM1E67N12I001

Banks like Barclays and HSBC are the latest planning to use the technical idea behind bitcoin for their own digital currency. Image: REUTERS/Andrew Winning

John Detrixhe
Future of Finance Reporter, Quartz
Joon Ian Wong
Technology Reporter, Quartz
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