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? This whole debate reappeared when Charlie Stross stated that “Bitcoin looks like it was designed as a wea...
If Target had accepted Bitcoins, she said, customers paying with the digital currency would not likely become targets of identity theft. “Because Bitcoin works on a public-key cryptography, anything passed during a Bitcoin transaction is useless to identity thieves.” If they obtain yo...
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) is the outsider's outsider — what other Texan would spend a freezing New Year's hundreds of miles away in New York City? But there he was last night at the launch event for the NYC Bitcoin Center, located just up the street from the New York Stock Exchang...
Developers have enough to do as they attempt to make their companies’ applications stand out in app stores and even in the world of enterprise software. If they want to add complex features users will dig, like a tool for handling payments in the Bitcoin virtual currency, they can tap...
Supporters concede it is likely impossible to make bitcoin transactions absolutely untraceable. Still, if Dark Wallet delivers as hoped and catches on with the virtual currency's users, law-enforcement officials will have more trouble tracking the flow of online commerce, some people ...
eBay looks to join bitcoin in solving the programmable money problem By Michael Carney On January 1, 2014 Bitcoin has been described as many things. It’s been compared to tulip bulbs, called internet gold and e-money, and labeled libertarian, as if a technology protocol can have a pol...
Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food . Happy New Calendar! “Harper’s Bottom”? Canadian government sells off the people’s gold bullion (to China): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/bank-of-canadas-gold-coins-to-be-liquidate...
One of the major advantages of Bitcoin is just how easy it is to work with from a developer’s standpoint. Bitcoin has no third party dependencies, no proprietary APIs, and no rapidly changing interface; all you need is your own favorite programming language, and chances are there is a...
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? This whole debate reappeared when Charlie Stross stated that “Bitcoin looks like it was designed as a wea...
Bitcoin enthusiasts, especially those in China, have been riding a financial roller coaster as of late. As 2013 comes to an end, we thought it would be helpful to recap just how we arrived where we are today: with heavy government restrictions on the world’s most robust Bitcoin market...
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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? This whole debate reappeared when Charlie Stross stated that “Bitcoin looks like it was designed as a wea...
Consider that Chinese citizens are forbidden from taking more than $50,000 out of their country in any given year. This policy yields strange results, such as the fact that, in 2012, 17 million Chinese made the pilgrimage to Macau. It wasn’t gambling that attracted them but rather gam...
Consider that Chinese citizens are forbidden from taking more than $50,000 out of their country in any given year. This policy yields strange results, such as the fact that, in 2012, 17 million Chinese made the pilgrimage to Macau. It wasn’t gambling that attracted them but rather gam...
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Unfortunately, there’s a catch to this. The amount of time required to mine one BTC block scales upwards by a difficulty factor the more blocks are mined. The higher the difficulty, the more hashing power is required to catch up, which means the only people who truly benefit from the ...
2013 will be a year remembered for many important reasons, with perhaps the most interesting being the rise of the digital currency, the bitcoin. Bitcoins have been in existence for 4 years now, and over those four years the value of a bitcoin has fluctuated drastically. These intense...
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This is an interesting question as it gets at the heart of how BTC is priced. Obviously there are a variety of factors involved some which will put upward pressure on the price and others that will put downward pressure on the price. Here is my view... Factors Increasing The Price of ...
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