24 Nov 2013 / ABC – Is digital currency a passing fad, or the future of money? For 101 days, newlyweds Austin Craig and Beccy Bingham-Craig from Utah lived off nothing but Bitcoin. Everything from food and fuel, to rent and travel had to be covered by
Read more →24 Nov 2013 / Washington Post – Here at The Switch, we love it when our writing sparks a new idea or raises a new question. So that’s why, every weekend, we pull together some of the week’s most thoughtful comments in one place. Friday, my colleague
Read more →24 Nov 2013 / Business Insider – Celine Sotelo “likes to be on the cutting edge,” so she was intrigued when a friend this summer touted the virtues of a new kind of money called Bitcoin. She downloaded the software that would allow her family-owned floral shop/cafe to
Read more →23 Nov 2013 / Motley Fools – Bitcoin may have just had its biggest breakout week ever. Surviving two Senate panels, impaired exchanges, and political tweets, Bitcoin is on an upward trend. Here’s a recap of the previous week. Monday The online cryptocurrency hit a new all-time
Read more →22 Nov 2013 / Market Watch – The Internet just can’t get enough of bitcoin. That much was apparent this week, which kicked off with two Senate hearings on virtual currencies. While the hearings included many questions about bitcoin’s potential for criminal activity, the Treasury Department’s Jennifer
Read more →22 Nov 2013 / Tech Crunch – An interesting idea sprouted up this week called KwikDesk, dubbing itself as a “Snapchat Meets Twitter.” The service allows anyone to send self-destructing messages into the ether with tags, which can be used to later dig them back up in
Read more →22 Nov 2013 / Washington Post – The Atlantic’s Matthew O’Brien is one of the Internet’s smartest commentators on economic policy. But like a lot of economics writers, he’s been slow to appreciate the disruptive potential of Bitcoin, the Internet’s first completely open payment network. O’Brien says
Read more →21 Nov 2013 / USA Today – From a Los Angeles travel agency to a European university, businesses have begun to embrace Bitcoin as mainstream currency An online travel agency in Los Angeles and a European private university have begun accepting payments in the popular virtual currency
Read more →21 Nov 2013 / Market Watch – Bitcoin is acting a bit cr-oizy. Well, more than a bit crazy, that bitcoin has swung from $350 to $900 in the past ten days. Just today, bitcoin has traded from $450 to $750 on Mt. Gox and other exchanges. Volatility,
Read more →21 Nov 2013 / LA Times – The University of Nicosia in the island nation of Cyprus will accept the virtual currency Bitcoin as payment for tuition and other school fees. The largest university in Cyprus said it will also offer a master’s degree in digital currency
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