En un capítulo de la famosa serie de dibujos animados "Bob Esponja", el jefe del protagonista (Don Cangrejo, el acaudalado dueño del restaurante en que trabaja Bob) le encarga comprar una serie de regalos para el cumpleaños de su hija. Para ello le hace entrega de una tarjeta de crédi...
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Bitcoin IS being used to sell illegal drugs on sites like Silk Road. However, illegal goods other than drugs – including assassinations, child pornography and even guns, are NOT gaining significant traction. The black market website Silk Road made considerable news a few months ago wh...
I am an e-Money researcher and crypto economist focused on expanding the circulation of nonpolitical digital currencies. My career has included senior influential posts at Sumitomo Bank, VISA, VeriSign, and Hushmail. "Free-market protagonists, such as Matonis, regard cybercash as bett...
A group of angel investors including SecondMarket founder Barry Silbert has invested $510,000 in BitPay, a firm that processes payments for merchants in the digital currency Bitcoin. BitPay says it plans to use the new capital to move its headquarters to Atlanta from Orlando and to hi...
One positive outcome of this stiff competition is that it significantly reduces the chance of any attacks on the Bitcoin network during the transition to ASICs over the next few months. Three months ago, when Butterfly Labs’ Josh Zerlan was asked why he chose the business model of sel...
It’s been a slow couple of months here at Coding In My Sleep – between the Bitcoin world taking a much-needed breather (read: nothing much happened) and my personal life exploding/imploding (read: bought a house) I have not been my usual post-a-day self. Well today I break that streak...
PayPal Demands Invites to Private BitTorrent Trackers enigmax January 8, 2013 0 paypal Print The traditional way for private BitTorrent trackers to keep their operations going is to accept donations from site users. Many sites, probably many hundreds, use PayPal to process these donat...
Bitcoin payment processor BitPay has closed a seed round totaling $510,000. Investors include Shakil Khan , Barry Silbert , Jimmy Furland , Roger Ver , and other tech angel investors. Roger Ver, paid his investment contribution using bitcoins. PRESS RELEASE BitPay, Inc, the world lead...
"A Song of Ice and Fire" character Jon Snow is not dead George RR Martin's sixth book in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series ("The Winds of Winter") will reveal that the character Jon Snow (apparently killed in "A Dance with Dragons") is still alive. This statement will be correct if ...
Du fait qu’ils sont échangés électroniquement, les bitcoins, contrairement à l’or, sont infiniment divisibles et permettent une grande vélocité monétaire. Ainsi, une forte déflation des prix ne ferait que limiter bitcoin à un rôle de réserve de valeur, plus pratique que l’or. En fait,...
