Bitcoin digital currency - decentralized and open source. Exchanged person-to- person, over the Internet.
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Mining results will vary based on the Bitcoin mining difficulty , with automatic periodic adjustments that re-calibrate production so that it resumes at the targeted rate. The biggest adjustment to difficulty in 2012 was under 15% and at the end-of-year the difficulty was not even thr...
While many Bitcoin-related developments originate out of the U.S. (e.g., from CoinBase which just raised a quarter million dollars in funding and from BitInstant which is launching a Bitcoin Mastercard ), Bitcoin is truly a global happening. Bitcoin is a technology. It is a software p...
for dozens of national brands in the U.S. and also sells mobile vouchers (e-cards) for instant payment at thousands of local retailers. The Lyoness brand offers merchant loyalty programs globally but the only path from Bitcoin to the gift cards is in the U.S. thanks to Dwolla, which i...
The most recent round, Round 8, totals 500 BTC in size. With an exchange rate of nearly $9 USD each, the total valuation of the current round is just under $4,500 USD. A response to the decision was posted in the group’s forum thread by César in which he claims that the offering was n...
“If you combine all black markets of the world together you’ll get a 10 trillion US$ economy, second only to the United States of America. In many developing countries it already comprises large parts of the economy and it is growing faster than the officially recognized gross domesti...
A discussion on Bitcoin at the 2013 New Hampshire LIberty Forum, an annual gathering of voluntaryists and Libertarians, included panelists Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees ), Roger Ver (@RogerKVer ) and Charlie Shrem (@CharlieShrem ). There are 8-separate videos with each under 10 minutes...
There is also now the ability to use bitcoins to speculate on the exchange rate of gold through the Gold futures contracts available through ICBIT . Do keep in mind though that ICBit has not registered with any regulators and operates without divulging from which jurisdiction it opera...
“The answer to the currency question may not be to reform government in a way that it can’t reasonably be reformed, but to turn loose entrepreneurial genius to solve the problem. […] This is a particularly risky area. There are currency entrepreneurs sitting in jail for competing with...
