• Iceland Should Abandon The Krona And Use Bitcoin
• IRS Taxing Bitcoins
• Coin Ticker iPhone App
• Top 10 Bitcoin Merchant Sites
• Why Didn’t Bitcoin Users Freak Out In May?
• OKPay Turns Back on Bitcoin
• China’s Currency War
• How Hackers Could Burst The Bitcoin Bubble
• Winklevii & Bitcoin
• OpenCoin Builds Universal Payment Ecosystem

All posts tagged "bitcoin"

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  Iceland Should Abandon The Krona And Use Bitcoin

  The government of Iceland does not have the necessary skills to manage its own currency. It should ditch the Icelandic krona and adopt Bitcoin, a nascent virtual currency that so far looks like the preserve of speculators,...

  • Posted July 7, 2013
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  IRS Taxing Bitcoins

  Even though we know there are some 11 million bitcoins in circulation worldwide, nobody’s sure how many users are American; so it’s impossible to calculate how much money Washington is losing on transactions conducted using the anonymous...

  • Posted June 19, 2013
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  Coin Ticker iPhone App

  The Coin Ticker is a free iPhone application that includes timely tracking (every few minutes) of 18 digital currency values against bitcoin BTC value and US Dollar (default) or set your own local currency for: Bitcoin, Ripple,...

  • Posted June 1, 2013
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  Top 10 Bitcoin Merchant Sites

  Who accepts bitcoin?  Let’s take a look at the top ten merchant sites on the Internet that are currently accepting bitcoin as payment. Uncensored rankings are based on the amount of three-month traffic received by the website...

  • Posted May 31, 2013
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  Why Didn’t Bitcoin Users Freak Out In May?

  “Today’s action does not mean that we are trying to eliminate virtual currencies and their providers,” said Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen during his Tuesday comments on the Liberty Reserve raid. That may be a sign that the...

  • Posted May 31, 2013
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  OKPay Turns Back on Bitcoin

  Mt. Gox hasn’t been having the best month with payment sources with the freeze of its Dwolla account and now OKPay apparently withdrawing entirely from bitcoin processing and funding of exchanges. In what seemed like a surprise...

  • Posted May 29, 2013
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  China’s Currency War

  Bitcoin: The Newest Tool In China’s Currency War Chest At the end of last week China Central Television, a state-run broadcaster, aired a documentary offering an overview of bitcoin and its potential benefits. Given the tight controls...

  • Posted May 6, 2013
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  How Hackers Could Burst The Bitcoin Bubble

  Hackers have stolen bitcoins from digital wallets and hijacked computers to create new bitcoins — the equivalent of minting money.  Last week, hackers attacked Mt. Gox, the most popular Bitcoin exchange, taking the site offline by flooding...

  • Posted April 11, 2013
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  Winklevii & Bitcoin

  The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler are laying claim to a new title: bitcoin moguls. The Winklevii, as they are known, have amassed since last summer what appears to be one of the single largest portfolios of...

  • Posted April 11, 2013
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  OpenCoin Builds Universal Payment Ecosystem

  Another day, another Bitcoin-related investment, and further affirmation that VCs are hungry to invest in the ecosystem surrounding the decentralized digital currency. OpenCoin, better known as the developer of open source payment protocol, Ripple, announced that it...

  • Posted April 11, 2013
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