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Here’s what should bolster bitcoin in 2014

On January 2, 2014 / companies, finance

02 Jan 2014 / CNBC – Last year was nothing short of exciting for bitcoin and with 2014 set to be another interesting year for digital currencies, the Bitcoin Foundation expects wider adoption and the recognition of its potential to support bitcoin going forward. Over the course

Some see Bitcoin as next vehicle for trade

On January 2, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance, politics

02 Jan 2014 / Kansas.com – U.S. Senate informational panels deemed it legitimate. Detractors dismiss it as unstable and a vehicle for criminal trade. China has banned new deposits on its largest exchange. Bitcoin, the international digital payment system and currency and one of the hottest technology

Tech Renegade: From Print-at-Home Guns to Untraceable Currency

On January 2, 2014 / companies, exchange, finance, mining, politics

02 Jan 2014 / WSJ – AUSTIN, Texas— Cody Wilson rattled lawmakers and law-enforcement agencies with a plastic gun created from a 3-D printer, home computer and blueprints he posted online for anyone to download. Now, the 25-year-old law-school dropout is about to launch software aimed at

This Texas Congressman Is Now Accepting Bitcoins For His Senate Run

On January 1, 2014 / finance, politics

01 Jan 2014 / Business Insider – Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) is the outsider’s outsider — what other Texan would spend a freezing New Year’s hundreds of miles away in New York City? But there he was last night at the launch event for the NYC Bitcoin Center,

Bitcoin ASIC manufacturer HashFast facing lawsuits over alleged false advertising

On January 1, 2014 / companies, finance, mining

01 Jan 2014 – ExtremeTech – A group of Bitcoin miners that bought into the hype surrounding one particular manufacturer, HashFast, are reportedly examining legal options after the company repeatedly failed to deliver on its hardware and is only now beginning to ship products promised in October

What a Bitcoin is really worth in India and China

On January 1, 2014 / companies, finance, politics

01 Jan 2014 / MarketWatch – The Bitcoin saga took an unpleasant turn this December when China’s central bank banned financial institutions from dealing in the virtual currency. Bitcoin was enjoying a surge of popularity in the country; by the end of November, Chinese exchanges were responsible

Developers flock to hot APIs for Bitcoin, translation, and stock services

On January 1, 2014 / companies, finance, mining

01 Jan 2014 / Venture Beat – Developers have enough to do as they attempt to make their companies’ applications stand out in app stores and even in the world of enterprise software. If they want to add complex features users will dig, like a tool for

Bitcoin ATMs Are Spreading Across the World

On December 31, 2013 / companies, exchange, finance

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

The Year of Bitcoin

On December 31, 2013 / companies, exchange, finance, mining, politics

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

Why don’t economists like Bitcoin?

On December 31, 2013 / companies, exchange, finance, politics

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 —

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