(Image: Casascius/Wikicommons) Online currency Bitcoin hit yet another record high today as it smashed through the $200 barrier, but a new analysis of Bitcoin exchanges shows that swapping real-world cash for its virtual equivalent can be a risky business. The stratospheric rise of Bi...
But in a peer-to-peer currency it is not so obvious what counts as an exchange. Bitcoin "miners", who run software to create Bitcoins, might also have to register if they sell the newly minted currency for its real equivalent. Patrick Murck of the advocacy group Bitcoin Foundation cal...
Hal Hodson, technology reporter Bitcoin is the perfect currency in many ways. The distributed network that governs the creation and distribution of this digital money means there's no need for central banks, no centralised control, nothing to come between you and your cash. But it doe...
Hal Hodson, technology reporter Bitcoin is the perfect currency in many ways. The distributed network that governs the creation and distribution of this digital money means there's no need for central banks, no centralised control, nothing to come between you and your cash. But it doe...
Hal Hodson, technology reporter Bitcoin is the perfect currency in many ways. The distributed network that governs the creation and distribution of this digital money means there's no need for central banks, no centralised control, nothing to come between you and your cash. But it doe...
MOST flowers don't want pesky ants hanging around scaring away would-be pollinators. Not so the Singapore rhododendron - the first flower found to recruit ants to chase poor pollinators away. Francisco Gonzálvez at EEZA, the arid zone experimental station in Almeria, Spain, and collea...
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(Image: OJO Images/Rex Features) Those with funds in the online peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin may soon be able to withdraw real-world cash directly from an ATM. Charlie Shrem , the co-founder of BitInstant, which lets users convert Bitcoins (BTC) into cash, appears to have confirmed t...
(Image: OJO Images/Rex Features) Those with funds in the online peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin may soon be able to withdraw real-world cash directly from an ATM. Charlie Shrem , the co-founder of BitInstant, which lets users convert Bitcoins (BTC) into cash, appears to have confirmed t...
Jacob Aron, technology reporter (Image: Adrianna Williams/The Image Bank/Getty) New analysis of the anonymous online marketplace Silk Road suggests that purveyors of illegal drugs and other black-market goods are raking in the equivalent of nearly $2 million of Bitcoins per month, whi...
Jacob Aron, technology reporter (Image: Adrianna Williams/The Image Bank/Getty) New analysis of the anonymous online marketplace Silk Road suggests that purveyors of illegal drugs and other black-market goods are raking in the equivalent of nearly $2 million of Bitcoins per month, whi...
Aquanaut Sylvia Earle , co-leader of the final mission to the world's only undersea lab, says the oceans need protecting more than ever – don't pull funding As we speak, you are 18 metres underwater in the Aquarius Reef Base off Key Largo in Florida. Why are you there? It's 50 years s...
