Digital currency – a subject of great divide

Virtual rush: People use a bitcoin ATM in Hong Kong. The explosive surge in the bitcoin price of more than multiple folds this year has seen the ordinary man on the street rushing to mobile-app virtual currency exchanges in the hopes of quick profits, despite several warnings by central bankers around the world. — AP

Bank Negara monitoring and assessing risks posed to financial system

DIGITAL currencies have gained so much prominence this year that even Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is calling this recent development a major breakthrough in mathematics and cryptography.