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Bitcoin Grows Up
On a recent balmy Friday in beautiful San Jose, an anonymous crypto currency was invading an anonymous convention center.
Articles tagged "currency"
China to Announce Plans for World Currency Domination This Year
After years of tight state control, China is finally preparing its currency, the yuan, to go mainstream.
This Video of a Half Second of High-Frequency Trades Is Just Too Much
Thing is, it's kind of beautiful.
Bitcoins Have Finally Found Their Use: Paying for Food Delivery
The best use for anonymous cryptocurrency? Shame-ordering a burrito at 2 AM.
Game Change: OkCupid and High-End Porn Monger MetArt Now Take Bitcoin
Are these online businesses too mainstream for bitcoin?
Lessons from the Second Great Bitcoin Crash
What the hell happened and what have we learned?
This Is What Bitcoin Sounds Like
This monetary melody will continue to evolve as the number of bitcoin transactions steadily increases.
If You're Not Careful, Bitcoins Aren't As Anonymous As You Think
Some bitcoin services are more likely to comply with authority than your wish for privacy.
Why Bitcoin’s Price Is Skyrocketing
To be clear, anyone who claims to know the direction of bitcoin tomorrow should be taken with a grain of salt.
Jeff Berwick, the Founder of Bitcoin ATM, Says His Machine Is the Real Deal
The founder of Bitcoin ATM wastes no time on a bitcoin-paved information superhighway.
Bitcoin: How Does It Work, What's It Do, and Is It a Drug-Fueled Money Laundering Scam Bubble?
In light of all the buzz surrounding the first widely used digital currency, it's a good time to talk some bitcoin basics.
The World's First Bitcoin ATM May End Up in Cash-Strapped Cyprus
Will Jeff Berwick's new company launch the first bitcoin-powered ATM in Cyprus?
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Engineering the Bitcoin Gold Rush: An Interview with Yifu Guo, Creator of the First Purpose-Built Miner
"It’s not about how much bitcoin is worth. The exchange rate is irrelevant. It’s about the concept."
Why Bitcoins Are Just Like Gold
What gives a shiny rock that has no real utility--outside of jewelry and limited industrial use--any kind of real world value?
Weathering the Storm? Bitcoin Finds New Resiliency
Open-source banking charges upward.
Does the New Bitcoin Bank Defeat the Purpose of Bitcoin?
French bitcoin exchange Paymium says it plans to regulate and institutionalize the crypto-currency with Bitcoin Central.
Bitcoin Had Its Own Black Friday
On November 9th, 65 Bitcoin-accepting merchants all got together, tossed their logos onto a website, and offered discount rates on products as diverse as bars of gold, chocolates, and automobiles.
With Digitally Trackable Cash, Did We Just Lose Our Last Opt-Out From Surveillance Society?
I had an interesting argument the other day about traffic cameras, and camera tracking/facial recognition in general. The opposing argument was a fairly typical slippery slope type objection -- _now it's traffic tickets, but next it'll be your face l…
With Euro Instability, Can Bitcoin Now Compete with Hard Currency?
It is at once the ‘net’s most inspired invention or its most dangerous project ever depending on who you ask.Bitcoin might be nothing more than the latest Internet scam, a virtual ponzi scheme designed to enrich early adopters, while adding no real v…
Ones and Zeros: Weather We Like it or Not, We are Losing the War on Hacking, Our Satellites, and Our Bitcoins
_My pair of Chinatown bootleg Ray-Bans has passed the test of time. Maybe I'll give the Chinese knockoff of Austria a shot._ h3. ONE: US soldier "re-grows" 70% of his leg using experimental procedure ("Daily Mail":http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/a…
