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What Is Bitcoin and What Can I Do With It?
Dear Lifehacker, Everywhere I go, I see Bitcoin popping up more and more. Many web services accept payments in the form of Bitcoin, and some even sell their homes for the stuff. I know it’s a digital...
View ArticleBitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven – Businessweek
One of the oddest bits of news to emerge from the economic collapse of Cyprus is a corresponding rise in the value of Bitcoin, the Internet’s favorite, media-friendly, anarchist crypto-currency. In...
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Activists Organize Nationwide Series of Drone Surveillance Protests – US News...
A variety of activist groups are organizing a series of nationwide protests in April in an attempt to stop the integration of domestic drones into American airspace. The protests will occur in at...
View Article‘Challenging the dollar’: Bitcoin total value tops $1 billion — RT News
Already bigger than many sovereign currencies, Bitcoin has broken the $1 billion in value mark this week. In the wake of continuing economic crises and liquidity shortages, this new virtual currency is...
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A fortune in gold and jewels awaits a lucky treasure hunter – if it exists
For more than a decade, he packed and repacked his treasure chest, sprinkling in gold dust and adding hundreds of rare gold coins and gold nuggets. Pre-Columbian animal figures went in, along with...
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Bitcoin Obliterates “The State Theory Of Money”– Forbes
Once you get past the childish title, the recent bitcoin piece from Karl Denninger raises some issues that warrant consideration from bitcoin economists. Denninger is an intelligent student of the...
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Beyond The Bitcoin Bubble – TechCrunch
A few months ago, while visiting a hacker friend’s magnificent new San Francisco loft, he gestured to a little alcove stuffed with server racks and said: “And over there are the Bitcoin mines.” I...
View ArticleFounder Of Drug Site Silk Road Says Bitcoin Booms And Busts Won’t Kill His...
As the crypto-currency Bitcoin has skyrocketed in value over the last weeks and then fallen even faster, it’s produced plenty of excitement and heartache for investors. But at least one Bitcoin...
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IRS backs off on warrantless email surveillance | The Daily Caller
Following last week’s uproar over internal IRS documents that suggested it engaged in warrantless email surveillance, a top agency official told a Senate committee Tuesday that it does no such thing....
View ArticleLegendary VC Paul Graham Suspects Bitcoin Was Created by a Government
Paul Graham is best known for his work as an extremely successful venture capitalist, co-founding the New York City seed fund, Y Combinator. But, he’s surprised the Internet this week with a radical,...
View ArticleBitcoin’s Last Mile Problem – TechCrunch
Joey DeVilla was (and still is) one of my favorite bloggers. Calling himself the Accordian Guy, Joey has been writing cool stuff for most of this decade, and he recently hopped on the bitcoin train by...
View ArticleThe moral environment on Wall Street is pathological; money rules all
The enclosed video is stunning, partly because it’s usually-”mainstream” Jeffrey Sachs talking. Sachs often argues for corporatist faux-centrist policies. Not so here; in this clip he rails against the...
View ArticleIRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin – Forbes
Bitcoin is virtual currency much in the news these days. It’s peer-to-peer so there’s no central bank or government. But if you think that means the IRS won’t get a piece, think again. The IRS already...
View ArticleEmployee creates Bitcoin botnet to exploit ESEA’s 500,000-member gaming...
The ESEA gaming network has been exploiting its users’ powerful graphics cards to mine Bitcoins without their knowledge. “Mining” is the way Bitcoin is created — it involves dedicating some or all of a...
View ArticleMassive Bitcoin Business Partnership Devolves Into $75 Million Lawsuit
Bitcoin, the virtual currency libertarian geeks expect us all to use to pay for pizza in the future, has had a rough few weeks. A series of booms and busts have sent shivers down the spines of Bitcoin...
View ArticleLiving On Bitcoin For A Week: The Bitcoin Diet – Forbes
Day 3. The value of Bitcoin has been dropping steadily since I started living on it. I wake up on Thursday morning and eat the leftover cinnamon breadsticks from my PizzaForCoins.com order the night...
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Bitcoin vs. Ben Bernanke
Could a virtual currency created by an anonymous Internet hacker someday replace the U.S. dollar? What seems like a ridiculous question has become more intriguing as trading in the digital money...
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A Push for a Bitcoin Buttonwood – NYTimes.com
Amid the incense, cheap art and herbal remedies for sale in Union Square in Manhattan on Monday, a very different kind of product was changing hands: bitcoins. Just feet from the park’s statue of...
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Wary of Bitcoin? A guide to some other cryptocurrencies | Ars Technica
It might have passed you by, but an essential part of the Internet’s infrastructure took a heavy knock last week. The Silk Road—you know, the website where you can buy any drug imaginable”—was...
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Bitcoin scam turns online gamers into unwitting accomplices – NBC News.com
It’s a thoroughly 21st-century heist: An online gaming service secretly leveraged thousands of users’ computers to acquire money in the form of online-only crypto-currency Bitcoin....
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