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Why nobody in their right mind should get into Bitcoin right now
You either need to be really rich, really idealistic, or really crazy to invest in Bitcoin
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Why Wall Street isn't ready for Bitcoin
The biggest organizations in the financial world have been conspicuously silent when it comes to Bitcoin, almost entirely staying out a staying out of a sector that’s been a huge moneymaking opportunity for those lucky enough to get in early.
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Bitcoin is too cheap for its own good
Last week, when Bitcoin’s price hit a new high of $1,240, Bloomberg News compared it to a massive bubble. Then over the weekend, on the news that China’s central banks would be banning...
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Coinbase raises $25 million in Series B round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz
Coinbase, the digital currency wallet and payment processor for merchants, has raised $25 million in a Series B round of funding led by Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Union Square Ventures and Ribbit Capital also participated in what is described as the largest round of funding for a company that works with digital currency.
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EU banking watchdog EBA warns of risks from Bitcoin
EU banking watchdog EBA warns of risks from Bitcoin
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Bitcoin is so 2013: Dogecoin is the new cryptocurrency on the block
It was only a matter of time before the 2013 meme of the year tried to turn his success into financial gain. Enter Dogecoin: a Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency that seems to have started as a joke and is beginning to actually accumulate some value. As with most things meme, there's a community on Reddit called Dogemarket where users are trading Dogecoin for actual, real-world items — though as of today, a single Dogecoin is worth only $0.00023.
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Bitcoin takes a beating: down nearly 50% as China cracks down
After a record run, Bitcoin prices have tumbled back to earth after the Chinese government announced a series of bans on the currency. Here is a chart and some background.
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Bitcoin's Outlook In China Is Not Looking So Good Right Now
China's crackdown on Bitcoin has begun in earnest, according to Bill Bishop, the editor of the Sinocism newsletter and a New York Times contributor. Bishop is confirming this evening an earlier report from Coindesk.com's Emily Spaven that the People's Bank of China has issued a new ban on third-party payment processors from doing business with Bitcoin exchanges.
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Why Bitcoin Inventor 'Satoshi Nakamoto' Is The Most Impressive Person Of 2013
We're going to give our vote to a different person, whose reach has been equally global and whose full influence may yet still be felt: the creator of Bitcoin.
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The Bitcoin Swan Dive Was Utterly Predictable
Bitcoin took a pounding in the last 24 hours, dropping below the $500 mark on the popular Mt.Gox exchange before rebounding.
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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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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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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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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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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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2 Vegas hotels to accept bitcoins - but gambling still requires hard cash
Las Vegas is getting one more novelty. Starting this week, patrons will be able to use the online currency bitcoin to pay for rooms, food and drinks at two downtown casinos. The D casino and the city's oldest casino, the Golden Gate, will accept bitcoins at hotel front desks beginning Wednesday. The cybercurrency will also be accepted at the D's gift shop and two restaurants. U.S. dollars will remain the only currency accepted on the gambling floor.
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