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25 Nov 2013 / Washington Post – One of the unique things about Bitcoin is that every transaction on its network is publicly available for anyone to examine. Any time a user sends a payment to another user, that transaction is reflected in the “blockchain,” a global,

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

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

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

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