Currency can refer to either paper such as the US dollar, or to the coins and banknotes of a particular currency, which comprise the physical aspects of a nation's money supply. The other part of a nation's money supply consists of money deposited in banks, called deposit money, ownership of which can be transferred by means of cheques and other money transfers such as credit and debit cards. Deposit money and currency are money in the sense that both are acceptable as a means of exchange, but money need not necessarily be currency.
Historically, money in the form of currency has predominated. Historically gold or silver coins of intrinsic value commensurate with the monetary unit commodity money, have been the norm. Modern currency, as fiat money, is intrinsically worthless. One type of currency over another in commodity money systems has arisen, usually when a government designates through decrees, that only particular monetary units shall be accepted in payment for taxes.
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News Liberty-focused non-profits find a friend in Bitcoin #Bitcoin2013
05-22-2013
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Coindesk.Com
Representatives from three non-profit organizations that accept donations in bitcoins say their groups’ freedom- and peace-focused missions mesh with the Bitcoin ethos.
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News Bitcoin ATMs: Handy Vending Machines or Money-Laundering Nightmares?
05-22-2013
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Wired.com
The Robocoin is an ATM for Bitcoins, and for a few glorious days this past weekend, on a conference center floor in San Jose, California, it dished out thousands of dollars in exchange for Bitcoins, the world’s most popular digital currency.
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News Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns
05-21-2013
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts
Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve's policy of Quantitative Easing (QE).
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News Amazon launches its own virtual currency called Coins
05-15-2013
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Daily Mail
Amazon has launched its own currency called Amazon Coins.
It's currently only available in the States for Kindle Fire owners, but the Coins can be used to pay for games, apps and in-app purchases from the Amazon Appstore.
One Amazon Coin is wo
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News Company Spends Real Money — $350,000 Worth — On Bitcoin Startups
05-14-2013
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Wired.com
Bitcoin took another step toward the mainstream Tuesday with the announcement of at least $350,000 available for Bitcoin-focused startups participating in the next class of Silicon Valley-based accelerator Boost VC.
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News Euro rises vs dollar, German ZEW holds key to more
05-14-2013
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http://in.reuters.com, By Anirban Nag
The euro rose versus the dollar for the first time in four sessions on Tuesday, helped by profit-taking on bets favoring the U.S. currency and by expectations that German investor morale could nudge higher.
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News Yen Falls Beyond 101 per Dollar on Bond Purchases; Franc Slides
05-10-2013
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www.businessweek.com, Lucy Meakin and Kevin Buckla
The yen weakened beyond 101 per dollar for the first time since April 2009 after a government report showed Japanese investors boosted holdings of overseas bonds, ending the longest streak of sales since January 2010.
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News A Gold-Price Rule as a Middle-Ground Path to a Genuine Gold Standard
05-09-2013
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central banking and gold-based money are incompatible; in logic and history alike they don’t go together, at least not for long. “If you want the gold standard in durable form,” he writes, “you can’t have central banking,” and “if you want central ba
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News Bitcoin: The Tyranny Test
05-07-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Paul Rosenberg
An increasing number of people have complained about governments and central banks in recent years, even using the word "tyranny" to describe them. They are, of course, called names in the establishment press: conspiracy theorists, mainly.
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News Let’s Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur’s Take
05-05-2013
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Dan Kaminsky via WIRED.com
Bitcoin. Everybody’s talking about it. What’s true, and what’s hype? Perhaps the only thing that’s clear about Bitcoin is that it’s not going away anytime soon. Who am I to say? I’m not an economist; I’m a hacker
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News When Is The Government Going To Shut Down Bitcoin?
05-05-2013
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endoftheamericandream.com
Do you actually believe that the central banks of the world are going to sit back and do nothing while their monopoly over money creation is being threatened?
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News Bitcoin Is Not as Secure, Unregulated, or Lucrative as You Might Think
05-04-2013
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Wired.com
Bitcoin. Everybody’s talking about it. What’s true, and what’s hype?
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News Payments Using Chinese Yuan Continue to Surge as Currency Tops Russian Rouble in Popularity
05-02-2013
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CNS News
A press release from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication shows that the value of payments using Chinese Yuan currency grew by 171 percent between January 2012 and January 2013.
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Canada Launches Space Robot-Themed $5 Bill with Astronaut's Help
05-01-2013
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Robert Z. Pearlman via
The Bank of Canada had appropriate help Tuesday (April 30) launching its new space-themed $5 bill – the Canadian commander of the International Space Station.
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News U.S. Mint Sales of Gold Coins Jump to Highest in Three Years
05-01-2013
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Prison Planet
Sales of gold coins by the U.S. Mint rose to the highest since December 2009 after the price of the metal in April fell the most in 16 months.
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News Bitcoin Prices Remain Volatile, Will it Become a Mainstream Currency?
04-27-2013
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thedroidguy.com
Two weeks after Bitcoin prices hit the all time high of $230 on April 9th, the price of the virtual currency remain wildly volatile.
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News BitCoin, Or BetaCoin? What The Venture Capitalists Are Thinking
04-23-2013
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zerohedge.com
After a disastrous few days in early April, bitcoin is back over $100 and up on the month, the year and its short lifetime.
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News China PMI Miss Slams JPY-Carry Trades
04-23-2013
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zerohedge.com
Thanks to a drop into contractionary territory for both New Export Orders and Employment, HSBC's Flash China Manufacturing PMI missed expectations and dropped to its equal lowest 'expansionary' print in six months.
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Chinese Sue Fed For Monopoly USD Devaluation
04-23-2013
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zerohedge.com
In what could to grow into a class action in US courts, a Chinese woman is suing the Federal Reserve after discovering that the real value of the USD250 she put in an account in 2006 had shrunk by 30%.
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News Buying Guns With Bitcoin
04-22-2013
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David Higginbotham via LewRockwell.com
Let me be clear. I’m not endorsing skirting the ATF’s rules or regulations in any way.
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News Is JPY About To Get The 'Gold' Treatment?
04-22-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Overnight a number of media types discussed the inevitability of the 100JPY Maginot Line being crossed (the same way they predicted the inevitable breach of USDJPY 100 two weeks ago).
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News What’s Riskier Than Bitcoins? Bitcoin Companies
04-19-2013
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Wired.com
Let’s say you believe that the price of gold is going to go through the roof (as opposed to where it has been going lately: the basement).
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News Presidential Candidate Darryl W. Perry Becomes the First Presidential Candidate to accept Bitcoin
04-19-2013
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Darryl W. Perry
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 19, 2013, Keene, NH - On this date in 1775, the first shots of the American Revolution were fired. Today, Presidential candidate Darryl W. Perry announces that he will be the first Presidential candidate t
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News Bitcoin Isn’t the Only Cryptocurrency in Town
04-16-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Tom Simonite
Currencies designed to fix perceived flaws in Bitcoin could lead to competition that makes the idea of digital “cryptocurrency” stick.
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Headlines: Bitcoin Isn’t the Only Cryptocurrency in Town -- Presidential Candidate Darryl W. Perry Becomes the First Presidential Candidate to accept Bitcoin -- What’s Riskier Than Bitcoins? Bitcoin Companies -- Is JPY About To Get The 'Gold' Treatment? -- Buying Guns With Bitcoin --
Chinese Sue Fed For Monopoly USD Devaluation -- China PMI Miss Slams JPY-Carry Trades -- BitCoin, Or BetaCoin? What The Venture Capitalists Are Thinking -- Bitcoin Prices Remain Volatile, Will it Become a Mainstream Currency? -- How The New $100 Bill Will Foil Counterfeiters -- U.S. Mint Sales of Gold Coins Jump to Highest in Three Years --
Canada Launches Space Robot-Themed $5 Bill with Astronaut's Help
-- Payments Using Chinese Yuan Continue to Surge as Currency Tops Russian Rouble in Popularity -- Bitcoin Is Not as Secure, Unregulated, or Lucrative as You Might Think -- When Is The Government Going To Shut Down Bitcoin? -- Let’s Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur’s Take -- Bitcoin: The Tyranny Test -- A Gold-Price Rule as a Middle-Ground Path to a Genuine Gold Standard -- Yen Falls Beyond 101 per Dollar on Bond Purchases; Franc Slides -- My Official Withdrawal from the BitcoinATM Project -- Euro rises vs dollar, German ZEW holds key to more -- Company Spends Real Money — $350,000 Worth — On Bitcoin Startups -- Amazon launches its own virtual currency called Coins -- Notes From Bitcoin 2013 -- Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns -- Bitcoin ATMs: Handy Vending Machines or Money-Laundering Nightmares? -- Liberty-focused non-profits find a friend in Bitcoin #Bitcoin2013 --
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