# Bitcoin Magazine

By [Suresh Devi](https://paragraph.com/@suresh-devi) · 2023-03-26

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Are you one of the 84.02 million wallet holders of [cryptocurrency](https://money.usnews.com/investing/term/cryptocurrency)?

Cryptocurrency is one of the most hotly debated global financial topics today. In 2013, Forbes named [Bitcoin (BTC)](https://money.usnews.com/investing/term/bitcoin) the year's best investment. In 2014, Bloomberg countered with its proclamation of Bitcoin being the year's worst investment. From the early days of the FBI shutting down the dark-net black market to the [Securities and Exchange Commission](https://money.usnews.com/investing/term/securities-and-exchange-commission-sec) approving ProShares Bitcoin Strategy (ticker: [BITO](https://money.usnews.com/funds/etfs/digital-assets/proshares-bitcoin-strategy-etf/bito)), the first [Bitcoin ETF](https://money.usnews.com/investing/cryptocurrency/slideshows/best-cryptocurrency-etfs-to-buy), in Oct 2021, cryptocurrency has had an exciting and volatile history.

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