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• 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 "digital currency"

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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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  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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  You Should Care About Bitcoin

  There is some debate around whether Bitcoin is a currency or commodity. The issue there is whether people are converting fiat money into Bitcoin in order to profit off its current meteoric rise in value, or whether...

  • Posted April 4, 2013
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  The Bitcoin Boom

  On March 16th, the Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, who’d been in office for about a month, announced a strategy to solve the country’s banking crisis. This plan met with instantaneous and violent opposition from the country’s citizens....

  • Posted April 2, 2013
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  FinCEN Guidelines

  Regulatory guidelines for virtual (digital) currency were issued last week by the US government agency known as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The regulations say that digital currencies like bitcoin are to be treated essentially as...

  • Posted March 18, 2013
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