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Once the enfant terrible of the monetary marketplace, Bitcoin has become achingly mainstream. The square-jawed Winklevii, (identical) poster-children of the 1%, now control 1% of the Bitcoins in circulation and, while money can’t buy you love, Bitcoins can get you an A-list OkCupid su...
The World Economic Forum released their Global Information Technology report earlier today, which ranks IT productivity and infrastructure worldwide. The United States was ranked as the world's ninth-most-wired nation--which is due, the WEF says, to “strong infrastructure and innovati...
Bitcoins are a hot commodity for traders, speculators and economists--and now they're fertile territory for virtual mining. A new form of malware discovered by Kaspersky Labs last week turns computers into bitcoin generator machines . Bitcoins , for those unaware, are a virtual form o...
A Bitcoin exchange has become a Payment Service Provider in Europe after partnering with French banks Aqoba and Credit Mutuel. This means that owners could bank their Bitcoins, pay with Bitcoins using a debit card, and be protected by schemes that apply to regular money and regular ba...
When the German Foreign Office hosted a human rights conference several months ago, one of the invited guest organizations was the Tor Project . The Tor Project runs a secure, anonymous network and distributes free software used by dissidents and free speech activists worldwide. Activ...
