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The so-called "cryptocurrency" has today hit a record $11,000 (£8,200) a coin.

And bookies Betway has odds of 11/8 that Bitcoin will break $20,000 (almost £15,000) by the end of 2018.

A spokesman for Betway told Daily Star Online it had made a list of possible firms that would soon take Bitcoin in response to its "soaring popularity".

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Fast food giant McDonald's is predicted at 1/2 to start accepting the currency next year.

Brits could soon be buying many other goods with Bitcoin, Betway continued.

High street favourite Argos is short in the betting at 4/5 to allow cryptocurrency transactions by the end of next year, with other huge firms like Amazon (6/4) and Easyjet (7/4) also predicted to follow suit.

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Clothes retailer Primark is 3/1 to accept Bitcoin by the end of 2018, and Poundland is 10/1.

Even the humble Greggs sausage roll could soon be available to Bitcoin enthusiasts, with odds of 10/1 for the change to happen by 2019.

Betway also predicts that football fans will be able to pay for their day out with the virtual currency too.

Chelsea's home Stamford Bridge is 7/2 to be the first sports ground to install a Bitcoin ATM, and Man United's Old Trafford is 8/1.

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But Bitcoin isn't all-popular.

Many criminals have used the currency because of the lack of government control.

In 2013 the FBI helped to close the Silk Road website that allowed dealers to sell millions of pounds worth of drugs, guns and other banned items using the anonymous currency.

It has also been attacked for wasting electricity.

"Mining", the process by which the coins are made, is very energy intensive.

Producing the coins uses more electricity in a year than the whole of Ireland, according to Bitcoin experts Digiconomist.

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What is Bitcoin?

It was created in 2009 by an unknown computer boffin using the name Satoshi Nakamoto.

Individual Bitcoins are created by computer code.

Transactions are made without a middle man, meaning they can be made anonymously.

To "mine" Bitcoins, you must purchase specific mining software, buy a Bitcoin "wallet," and download a mining program.

Betway have odds of 25/1 that any government from the G8 of countries, including Britain, will ban Bitcoin next year.