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By reading this page, you are mining bitcoins
New bitcoins are created roughly every 10 minutes in batches of 25 coins, with each coin worth around $730 at current rates. Your computer—in collaboration with those of everyone else reading this post who clicked the button above—is racing thousands of others to unlock and claim the next batch.
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How Bitcoin Became the Honey Badger of Money
If you’ve driven on Santa Clara’s Lawrence Expressway sometime in the past six months, you may have seen the Bitcoin honey badger.
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Mobile Vikings: the First Cellular Network to Accept Bitcoin
Belgian company Mobile Vikings has begun accepting bitcoin payments, claiming it is the first telecom operator to do so.
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Overstock.com Will Accept Bitcoin, Immediately Exchange for Dollars
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne made waves in the imaginary money world when he announced the retailer will start accepting payment in bitcoin sometime next year. In interviews, Byrne made his confidence in the cryptocurrency seem rock-solid. But if you look a little closer, it seems he's not really buying in at all.
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Online retailer Overstock to accept Bitcoin
Overstock.com will become the first major U.S. retailer to accept Bitcoin, the company's chief executive Patrick Byrne told CNNMoney Friday.
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CryptoLocker's crimewave: A trail of millions in laundered Bitcoin
CryptoLocker has infected an estimated 250,000 victims, demands an average $300 payout, and is trailing millions in laundered Bitcoin. Dell SecureWorks' new paper sheds light on the unstoppable ransomware.
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A Bloomberg TV Host Gifted Bitcoin On Air And It Immediately Got Stolen
While on air, Miller surprised Bloomberg anchors Adam Johnson and Trish Regan each with $20 worth of Bitcoin. But as Johnson received the paper gift, he briefly exposed the QR code (see above). This act was effectively like sharing a bank account and PIN number.
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Dogecoin, a virtual currency that started as a joke, gets real with its first big hack
Just when you've started wrapping your head around Bitcoin, a new virtual currency is hitting the headlines. Millions of Dogecoin, a virtual currency that began as a joke and has seen niche growth ...
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What happens to dead bitcoins?
Bitcoin watchers everywhere let out a guttural sigh of pity when they heard the story of James Howells earlier this month. Howells inadvertently threw away $7.5 million worth of Bitcoin when he tossed out an old hard drive containing 7,500 units of the online cryptocurrency. The Welshman had purchased them back in 2009, shortly after bitcoins were introduced, for less than $6. Now he's kicking himself while digging through a British landfill.
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Why I Lost Faith In Bitcoin As A Money Transfer Protocol
As 2013 came to an end, many reflected on last year’s biggest tech news — and Bitcoin was a serious contender. But the main question remains: why are people interested in Bitcoin?
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Kanye West Now Has His Own Cryptocurrency and It’s Called Coinye West
If you couldn’t get behind Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer digital cryptocurrency that’s as volatile as your weird uncle when he’s 3 glasses of gin deep, perhaps Coinye West is more your style. Like Dogecoin, the digital currency stamped with the glorious face of the Internet’s favorite Shibu Inu, the soon to debut Coinye West is piggybacking off of the success of Bitcoin and creating its very own unregulated currency that they hope Kanye himself will get behind.
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Zynga tests Bitcoin payments for seven online games
Zynga hasn't had much to celebrate lately — the social gaming company suffered a huge drop in users last year and it hasn't had a hit title in some time.
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Bitcoin Tops $1,000 Again on Adoption by Zynga Amid Wider Usage
The price of Bitcoin surpassed $1,000 again on the Mt.Gox exchange, after Zynga Inc. said it would start accepting the virtual currency for some of its online social games as the digital money becomes more widely used.
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Bitcoin’s Future Foretold By Developer Momentum | TechCrunch
If you think developers predict the future then there is more reason to believe that Bitcoin is the real deal. The crypto currency is a hit with developers,..
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Singapore government to tax some bitcoin transactions
Singapore-registered companies who buy and sell bitcoins or exchange the digital currency for other goods and services must pay taxes for these transactions, says the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS), Singapore’s tax authority. The government’s stance towards the volatile...
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Bitcoin banned on China’s biggest online marketplace
Bitcoin faces a fresh obstacle in China as Alibaba,the country’s largest e-commerce group, will ban bitcoin transactions starting January 14. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's Taobao, China’s largest online marketplace, will not allow any transactions of virtual currencies or related products, the Financial Times reports.
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The Bitcoin-Mining Arms Race Heats Up
Silicon Valley is the natural center for Bitcoin mania. An advocacy group named Arisebitcoin recently put up 40 billboards around the Bay Area with messages such as: “The Revolution has started … where do you stand?”
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The Grand Experiment Goes Live: Overstock.com Is Now Accepting Bitcoins
Overstock.com is now accepting payments in bitcoin, making it the first major online retailer to embrace the increasingly popular but controversial digital currency.
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World's first bitcoin storage vault opens in London
A “deep cold storage” service for bitcoins underwritten by Lloyds of London and offering protection from hackers and accidental loss has launched in the UK
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Bitcoin Stares Down Impending Apocalypse (Again) | Wired Enterprise
In the global arms race known as bitcoin mining, there’s success, and then there’s an excess of success.
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