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Follow the venture capital money into bitcoin

On March 25, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance

25 Mar 2014 / Marketwatch – Venture capitalists and major investors have been funneling money into bitcoin companies in the last year, in what some have likened to the early stages of investing in Internet companies. There have been a number of setbacks for the virtual currency,

Bitcoin goes national with Scotcoin and Auroracoin

On March 25, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance, politics

25 Mar 2014 / The Guardian – The promise of bitcoin is a universal currency free from the control of any nation or government. But a new generation of cryptocurrencies are focusing on the opposite goal: building money to solve problems specific to one country. On midnight

Bitcoin nabob: Yes, there’s life after Mt. Gox (Q&A)

On March 25, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance, politics

25 Mar 2014 / CNet – Bitcoin’s been very much in the news of late for all the wrong reasons. In February the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox declared bankruptcy after some $400 million in bitcoins got stolen. Bitcoin bank Flexcoin shut down earlier this month after robbers

What’s In Your Virtual Wallet? Durham Bakery Accepts ‘Bitcoin’

On March 24, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance

24 Mar 2014 / WUNC.org – If you have never heard of a “Bitcoin,” you are not alone. Even though the digital currency continues to get a lot of attention around the world, it’s been slow to catch on in most pockets of the US, including North

Why Marc Andreessen is betting big on bitcoin

On March 24, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance

24 Mar 2014 / Yahoo – Bitcoin is trading about 55% below its record high and Its biggest exchange is now bankrupt following a multimillion-dollar loss. Does the popular virtual currency have a future? Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, thinks so. The co-founder and partner of

New Derivative Guards Against Bitcoin’s Price Swings

On March 24, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance, politics

24 Mar 2014 / Wall Street Journal – If you thought trading bitcoin was a shot in the dark, how about bitcoin derivatives? A start-up derivatives exchange is working on what it claims will be the first bitcoin swap, allowing financial institutions to bet on the value

Enter The Blockchain: How Bitcoin Can Turn The Cloud Inside Out

On March 22, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance, mining

22 Mar 2014 / Tech Crunch – Drop whatever what you’re doing and go read Maciej Cegłowski’s absolutely magnificent essay Our Comrade The Electron, an astonishing history of the amazing Russian engineer Lev Sergeyevich Termen. Make sure you read right down to its punchline, “the most badass

Bitcoin Isn’t Really Banned in China—and It’s Quickly Gaining Ground

On March 21, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance, politics

21 Mar 2014 / Businessweek – Bobby Lee, the founder of China’s biggest Bitcoin exchange, BTC China, went on Bloomberg TV yesterday to knock down the false notion that virtual currency had been banned in his country. In December, China’s central bank issued guidance that bars financial institutions

Bitcoin: a financial revolution the web’s been waiting for?

On March 21, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance

21 Mar 2014 / Irish Times – Bitcoin may not be the messiah of a new currency its hardcore fans yearn for, but it may herald the deeper financial revolution the internet has been waiting for. While computers and smartphones have brought the web to more than

Bitcoin’s software gets security fixes, new features

On March 20, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance, mining

20 Mar 2014 / PC World – The software driving Bitcoin’s network was upgraded Wednesday, with security fixes addressing a problem that defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox blamed for losing nearly half a billion dollars worth of bitcoins. The open-source software, known as Bitcoin-QT, has also been

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