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12 Dec 2013 / Malaysian Insider – A fund established to offer investors exposure to Bitcoin is holding around $65 million (RM209 million) in the digital currency after two months in operation, its creator, SecondMarket Chief Executive Officer Barry Silbert, said yesterday. Silbert told a group of

12 Dec 2013 / NYT – Silicon Valley’s bets on the digital currency Bitcoin keep getting bigger. A San Francisco company, Coinbase, announced on Thursday that it had raised $25 million from some prominent venture capitalists in the largest-ever fund-raising round for a Bitcoin company. Since its

11 Dec 2013 / Barrons – Bitcoin, the digital currency launched in early 2009, is being accepted by an increasing number of vendors worldwide, from car dealerships and online travel-planning firms to wine merchants and charities. Even though its value has swung wildly in recent days, each

11 Dec 2013 / The Guardian – Bitcoin does not need to replace normal currency in order to have a future, according to an expert on digital currencies from professional services firm Ernst & Young. Speaking at an event in London, Roger Willis, who has been following

10 Dec 2013 / Zerohedge – If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, copy ’em, and then beat ’em. While everyone’s attention has been glued to Bitcoin (and its various smaller and less viable for now alternative digital currencies), JPMorgan has submitted a patent which appears to