25 Jan 2014 / International Business News – NEW YORK — Edwin Cuevas III stands quietly in front of a folding table at the back of the room, people crowding around him, a buzz of excitement in the air. A projector shoots real time prices of bitcoin
Read more →25 Jan 2014 / Zerohedge – In the last year Bitcoin has gone ‘viral’. As ConvergEx’s Nick Colas notes, a lot has happened in 2013: Price appreciation, yes, from $20 to +$800 – the result of this online “Currency” going from science project to mainstream topic. Volatility
Read more →25 Jan 2014 / Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Fukuda, a Japanese restaurant in Bloomfield, on Wednesday proudly posted a message to its Facebook and Twitter followers: “Ladies and gentlemen, Fukuda has officially accepted bitcoin as payment for Omakase this evening.” Omakase, for the uninitiated, is a “chef’s
Read more →24 Jan 2014 / All Alabama – Bitcoin may be a mystery to most consumers, but the virtual currency with no government backing is starting to look … conventional. The world’s first bitcoin ATM processed more than $1 million last month, bitcoin broker Jackson Warren told The
Read more →24 Jan 2014 / Naked Security – First there was online banking. Then PayPal. Now, there’s Bitcoin. It’s a brave new world, but with Bitcoin exchange rates so high those coins are too precious to lose. That’s where a Bitcoin wallet comes in. A wallet is a
Read more →24 Jan 2014 – The Australian – THE Australian WikiLeaks Party has taken thousands of dollars in donations via the global crypto-currency bitcoin since it registered in July last year but has no way of finding out where the transactions originated. The party hierarchy, which The Australian
Read more →24 Jan 2014 / Bloomberg – Advocates of Bitcoin gained support from OAO Sberbank (SBER) chief Herman Gref, who’s urging the Kremlin to stop Russian lawmakers from curbing the use of virtual currencies in a bill designed to cut funding for terrorists. “It’s a very interesting global
Read more →24 Jan 2014 / Washington Post – Vancouver, B.C. — The small monolith sits at the back wall of a downtown coffee shop. Canadians are a demure people, not known to shriek or hop, but they approach the Bitcoin ATM with the spooked wonder of those apes
Read more →24 Jan 2014 / St. Louis Business Journal – Maplewood’s Strange Donuts has experimented with everything from maple-glazed bacon donuts to donuts with caramel and pretzel toppings. Now, the donut shop will test digital currency by accepting digital currencies Bitcoin and Dogecoin as early as next week.
Read more →23 Jan 2014 / Austin Business Journal – A fast-growing Bitcoin incubator said Thursday it has invested $7 million in 12 Bitcoin-based businesses since May. Incubator BitAngels, which has an office in Austin, unveiled its business strategy focused solely on early-stage startups with Bitcoin-based revenue models. Investments
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