Newsweek is receiving heat over luring and then outing the founder of Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto hasn’t held a “real” job in years, he got into financial problems years ago which […]
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Austin and Seattle, echelons of early adopters and “Keep My City Weird” bumper stickers, will be the first cities in the US to receive Bitcoin ATMs. After a successful pilot […]
Last week, I invited a few friends to come together and talk about Bitcoin. The conversation was wide ranging (read: ill-organized), but interesting. Three key topics emerged out of the […]
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Vancouver is now home to a machine that accepts and dispenses only cash and Bitcoin account data. The goal, say its owners, is to make the virtual currency easier to buy and sell.
The country became the first in the world to officially recognize the use of the virtual currency for legal and tax purposes.
Working in collaboration with Tumblr, Phillips' "Paddles ON!" will auction off preselected works of digital art both live and online. It will also display the works in a special show at their physical gallery on New York City's Park Avenue.
A Bitcoin payment processing company says that in the last two years, more than 8,000 mostly small businesses have signed up for their service. Some merchants say accepting the digital currency helps them stand out.
Bitcoin is just the first virtual currency to make it big – and you can bet it won’t be the last.
The online commerce giant eBay is considering accepting the virtual currency Bitcoin. The retailer would use its Paypal payments network to exchange the currency online for goods and services.
Writer David Meyer hones in on what this crypto-currency experiment -- regardless of whether it succeeds or fails -- could mean for the future. According to him, "The genie is out of the bottle."
In the midst of Spain's financial crises, a record number of its citizens are turning to Bitcoin, an online virtual currency used to exchange goods and services using complex computer software.
A Canadian man is offering a house for sale in either Canadian dollars "or its Bitcoin equivalent." It's one of several signs that the virtual currency is becoming more popular.
1. Dark lightning Thunderstorms need to vent electrical energy, and they can do so in two ways. There is the Ben Franklin way and there is the extreme way: dark […]
By Aaron Smith Since the beginning of the digital age, pundits have hailed virtual currencies as the future of our civilization’s money. While it may be difficult to imagine a […]
Probably not. But the virtual currency bitcoin could be a real alternative to government-issued money—only if it survives hoarding by speculators, says James Surowiecki.
The value of virtual currency Bitcoin has plummeted after a catastrophic hacking on Sunday, raising questions asked about whether it's the beginning of the end for it.
Is a virtual currency free of intermediaries tenable given the recent string of hacker attacks? One user of Bitcoin, a decentralized virtual currency, claims $500,000 was stolen from his account.
Hoping to exploit public skepticism over the banking system, a bunch of libertarians and internet geeks are hoping to disrupt our cash system with an online currency called Bitcoin.
The same people who brought you Wikileaks are back, and this time, they’ve created a virtual currency called Bitcoin that could destabilize the entire global financial system. Bitcoin is an […]