European regulator tells banks to shun Bitcoin
• france24.comEurope's top banking regulator on Friday called on the region's banks not to deal in virtual currencies such as Bitcoin until rules are developed to stop them being abused.
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Europe's top banking regulator on Friday called on the region's banks not to deal in virtual currencies such as Bitcoin until rules are developed to stop them being abused.
When the government auctioned nearly 30,000 Bitcoins on Friday, many bidders were looking for a bargain, hoping to buy the virtual currency at a discount and flip it later for a short-term profit.
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Lauren Canario and Jim Johnson on activism - Scott Bieser (BigHeadPress) gives an update - Tarrin Lupo (Author, Activist) tells us what he has been doing - Josie the Outlaw talks about spreading the liberty message - Tom Hunt (MadBitcoins.Com) on cry
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This is the audio (from my iPhone) of my talk "The History, Meaning, and Future of Legal Tender," from the Crypto-Currency Conference: Bitcoin and the Future of Money (Atlanta, Oct. 5, 2013).
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Six months ago, Mark Karpeles was telling the world that his company, Mt. Gox, once the world's largest bitcoin exchange, had somehow lost $400 million in customer funds. Now, he's tweeting about beautiful Tokyo sunsets.
This is the audio (from my iPhone) of my talk "The History, Meaning, and Future of Legal Tender," from the Crypto-Currency Conference: Bitcoin and the Future of Money (Atlanta, Oct. 5, 2013). Slides below. Video/professional audio to be released late
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Apple is letting bitcoin back onto the iPhone.
For the first time in Bitcoin's history, a single entity repeatedly provided more than half of the total computational power required to mine new digital coins, signaling the end of the crypto currency's decentralized structure.
Brett Scott has written an excellent review of the Bitcoin phenomenon as it relates to government regulation and international affairs. He evidently has looked closely into developments in the crypto-currency world.
A young man by the name of Erik Finman has received a fair amount of news in the recent weeks after it came to light that he made a six-figure profit on a bitcoin investment, and then opened his own business. In 2012, Finman received $1,000 from his
Another day, another company accepting bitcoin in an attempt to cash in on the craze. This time it's Expedia the travel booking site that's accepting the virtual currency for hotel bookings. They're working directly with Coinbase to accept and then c
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