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The Chinese Are In Love With Bitcoin And It's Driving The Digital Currency's Prices Into The Stratosphere
Even before the Silk Road crackdown, Chinese had been nudging the market up.
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The Rise and Fall of the World's Largest Bitcoin Exchange
Mark Karpeles is the man who built the world's largest bitcoin exchange. But now that the digital currency is reaching the mainstream, his success may slip through his fingers.
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When will the people who called Bitcoin a bubble admit they were wrong?
The word "bubble" comes up a lot in discussion of Bitcoin. Bubble talk last peaked in April of this year, when the value of one Bitcoin soared from less than $100 at the start of the month to an all-time high of $266 on April 10.
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$1.2M Hack Shows Why You Should Never Store Bitcoins on the Internet
Here’s your digital-currency lesson of the day, courtesy of a guy who calls himself TradeFortress: “I don’t recommend storing any bitcoins accessible on computers connected to the internet.”
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Riding Bitcoin's record high, Bitcoin ATM trades $100,000 in a week
In its first week, the Bitcoin ATM, located at a coffee shop in Vancouver, traded more than $100,000 CDN worth of the cybercurrency, though it's unknown how many unique users took advantage of the new service.
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Meet Dark Wallet – How Crypto-Anarchists Will Store Their Bitcoins
The greatest, most existential debate in the entire Bitcoin community revolves around how much (if any) cooperation there should be between the alternative currency network and state regulators. Fo...
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Wikileaks, Bitcoin and Raspberry Pi named by UK trust for promoting 'inspiring social change'
A global list celebrating “the people and organisations who are using digital technology to change the world for the better” has spotlighted a number of technological projects including Wikileaks, Bitcoin and Raspberry Pi.
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Value of a bitcoin doubles, breaks $400 over last two weeks
Don't look now, but everyone's favorite crypto-currency is creeping back up the charts again. Over the past two weeks the value of a bitcoin has skyrocketed from just over $200...
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Bitcoin Just Hit $500 For The First Time
There it is. Per Clarkmoody.com, Bitcoin just hit $500.
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The History of Bitcoin Theft
If Bitcoin Is So Secure, Why Have There Been Dozens of Bitcoin Bank Robberies And Millions In Losses?
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Why China wants to dominate Bitcoin
China has experience with virtual currencies. So it understands why it is important to quickly become a leading player in the Bitcoin market.
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Meet The 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins
As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it’ll soon be used to buy murder, too.
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12 questions you were too embarrassed to ask about Bitcoin
This has been a big week for Bitcoin. On Monday, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the first-ever Congressional hearing on Bitcoin. Later in the day, the currency's value reached an all-time high of more than $800. That has left a lot of people scratching their heads. What's Bitcoin? How do you use it? And why would anyone want to? Read on for answers.
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Gaming Company Fined $1 Million For Secretly Using Players' Computers To Mine Bitcoin
Back in April, an online gamer noticed that his computer seemed to be working harder than it should be given what he had running on it. When he checked his logs, he realized that his computer, much to his surprise, had joined a Bitcoin mining pool in the Czech Republic and was helping someone to mine the cryptocurrency.
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Here’s who (probably) did that massive $150,000,000 Bitcoin transaction
One of the unique things about Bitcoin is that every transaction on its network is publicly available for anyone to examine. Any time a user sends a payment to another user, that transaction is reflected in the "blockchain," a global, permanent ledger of Bitcoin transactions.
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Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto
Two Israeli scientists have written a paper that suggests a link between Ross William Ulbricht, who was recently arrested as the operator of the Internet black market Silk Road, and the anonymous inventor of bitcoin.
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Did Bitcoin creator 'Satoshi Nakamoto' invest in Silk Road?
The Weizmann Institute’s Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir have been closely studying the movement of the semi-anonymous digital currency Bitcoin, and today published a paper that highlights an unusual set of transactions that may closely link its inventor, a mysterious figure known as Satoshi Nakamoto to Silk Road mastermind Dread Pirate Roberts.
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Bitcoin’s skyrocketing value ushers in era of $1 million hacker heists
At least three Bitcoin exchanges report high-stakes robberies this month.
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As bitcoin booms, so does bitcoin bank robbery
Robbing a bank is such a hassle in the real world, with all the complicated logistics of weapons, vaults, dye packs, and getaway cars. It’s a lot more straightforward to rob digital currency exchanges and payment processors. To paraphrase bank robber Willie Sutton, that’s where the bitcoins are.
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Once You Use Bitcoin You Can't Go 'Back' — And That's Its Fatal Flaw
As a security researcher, I admire bitcoin-the-protocol. But I believe bitcoin-the-currency contains a fatal flaw.
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