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13 Dec 2013 / NYT – LONDON – The European Union on Friday added to a string of recent warnings about the safety of using and investing in Bitcoin, the virtual currency that is not issued by any government. The union’s banking authority said consumers needed to

13 Dec 2013 / Business Wire – SACRAMENTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The BitGive Foundation, the charitable giving organization of the Bitcoin community, provided its first donation yesterday to Save the Children for their Typhoon Haiyan Children’s Relief Fund. The Foundation raised $4,850, exclusively from the Bitcoin community, as part

12 Dec 2013 / NYT – A venture capitalist, a former regulator, a lawyer and a pair of entrepreneurs — Bitcoin evangelists all — gathered on Tuesday in the private dining room of an upscale Manhattan restaurant to discuss their vision of a world in which the

12 Dec 2013 / Detroit Free Press – LAS VEGAS – Entrepreneurs flush with newly valuable Bitcoins are creating new products designed to simplify the technology and spread Bitcoin mania into the modern American mall. More than 600 Bitcoin aficionados gathered Tuesday in a conference center here

11 Dec 2013 / Examiner – Where else but in Las Vegas is it fitting for Bitcoin to be debated? Hundreds, mostly, male, took notes feverishly on mining and investment process of Bitcoin, the controversial digital currency. They are attending this week the conference; Inside Bitcoins: The