Bitcoin: The short crazy history of 2017

Bitcoin has had an interesting 2017 with some steep rises - and falls - in value.

Many see it as a mere speculative financial instrument rather than a genuine digital currency, but should we now take it seriously?

The BBC's Asia business correspondent Karishma Vaswani takes a look at the year of Bitcoin.

Produced by Christine Hah.

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