31 Dec 2013 / Entrepreneur – Sometimes the future can sneak up on you. Like when you find out that a startup incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, whose employees live in New Hampshire and whose products are made in Portugal, is selling digital-currency ATMs to Saudi
Read more →31 Dec 2013 / RT – Like it or love it, bitcoin has been a constant theme of headlines for the past year, as 2013 marked its coming of age. Last year’s nerd money fad has become this year’s most talked about product. Ultimately, nature abhors a
Read more →31 Dec 2013 / The Verge – Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote a blog post this weekend with a tantalizing title, “Bitcoin Is Evil,” that has provoked the expected backlash from proponents of the virtual currency. The headline over-promises, unfortunately —
Read more →30 Dec 2013 / Washington Post – My wife and I are planning a trip to Asia in January, and so I’ve been making hotel and airplane reservations. In the process, I’ve had first-hand experience with the dysfunctional state of international credit card payments. I’ve had three
Read more →30 Dec 2013 / Seattle pi – Paul Krugman set off a new firestorm this weekend with a post about Bitcoin that asked a fairly simple question: What gives a bitcoin its worth? The post drew a ton of angry reaction from the Internet community and tech
Read more →30 Dec 2013 / AllThingsD – When news surfaced two weeks ago of a fresh round of restrictions that China was placing on businesses transacting in the bitcoin ecosystem, the value of bitcoin plummeted. The CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index, for example, showed that bitcoin traded as low
Read more →30 Dec 2013 / CoinDesk – A nomadic man in Spain is living off bitcoin, an Android tablet and a solar charger. The man, who wanted to be known only by his first name, Justas, is documenting his eighth year of homelessness, which he stresses is a
Read more →30 Dec 2013 / Business Insider – Paul Krugman upset the Bitcoin community over the weekend when he wrote a blog post titled “Bitcoin is Evil.” In the post he said he was “deeply unconvinced” that Bitcoin can actually work as a form of currency. He doesn’t
Read more →30 Dec 2013 / Coinbase Blog – We just released Coinbase for Android 2.0 on the Play Store. Coinbase for Android 2.0 features a new UI along with improved speed, reliability, and ease of use. We’re also releasing an all-new Coinbase Merchant app, which makes it easy
Read more →30 Dec 2013 / Bloomberg – What do a street-van burger, a wedding bouquet and a Beatles album have in common? They’re all on a growing list of products shoppers can buy over the counter using the virtual currency Bitcoin. From Berlin record store Long Player to
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