Archive for the finance Category

30 Dec 2013 / Washington Post – My wife and I are planning a trip to Asia in January, and so I’ve been making hotel and airplane reservations. In the process, I’ve had first-hand experience with the dysfunctional state of international credit card payments. I’ve had three

30 Dec 2013 / Coinbase Blog – We just released Coinbase for Android 2.0 on the Play Store. Coinbase for Android 2.0 features a new UI along with improved speed, reliability, and ease of use. We’re also releasing an all-new Coinbase Merchant app, which makes it easy

30 Dec 2013 / Bloomberg – What do a street-van burger, a wedding bouquet and a Beatles album have in common? They’re all on a growing list of products shoppers can buy over the counter using the virtual currency Bitcoin. From Berlin record store Long Player to

29 Dec 2013 / NY Post – Shave and a haircut — two bitcoins? Sure, its value might rise and fall by the day, but some small-business owners in New York City are buying into bitcoin by accepting the buzzed-about currency at their brick-and-mortar locations. They’re saying

28 Dec 2013 / Motely Fool – It’s OK, you can admit it. You think Bitcoin is kind of cool. You haven’t told your spouse that. You wouldn’t dare tell your coworkers. But it’s OK, you can admit it to me — it’ll be our secret. You dig