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You Can Now Use Bitcoins To Pay For Virgin Galactic Flights
Bitcoins! In space! Entrepreneur Richard Branson waves a model of the LauncherOne cargo spacecraft from a window of an actual size model of SpaceShipTwo on display. Luke Macgregor / Reuters Richard...
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Here Are Some Of The Weirdest Places You Can Spend Your Bitcoins
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday on deck, here are a few of the places where you can spend the Bitcoins burning a hole in your virtual pocket. From a group of pubs in England to a place that sells...
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Sign-Holding Student's Bitcoin Account Passes $25,000 After Being On ESPN
How one college student’s sign made him a small Bitcoin fortune. Via i.imgur.com Mining for Bitcoins is a process still not really familiar to most people, but if you want some encrypted currency of...
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Donald Glover Is Not An Expert On Monetary Economics
He doesn’t want money backed by gold (which we haven’t had in any form since the 1970s) and says that Bitcoin “feels realer to me and makes more sense.” NBC / Via gph.is In an interview with Time...
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These Adorable Girls Claim They Accept Bitcoins At Their Lemonade Stand
Now that’s keeping up with the times. "These adorable little girls just sold me snickerdoodles for Bitcoin in San Francisco. I asked them to say cheese for the internet :)," the user wrote. reddit.com...
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The World's First Bitcoin Vault Has Opened In London
The service offers insurance and protection from hackers. Elliptic Vault claims to be the world's first insured Bitcoin storage service. AAA-pictures/AAA-pictures Lloyds of London will underwrite any...
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13 Easy Steps To Understanding Bitcoins From Hannah Hart
Hannah Hart, star of My Drunk Kitchen on YouTube, is an all around genius when it comes to baking and explaining bitcoins at the same time. Let Hannah Hart explain the mystery of bitcoins to you while...
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The Winklevoss Twins Really Are Identical
Find the differences in their bios. (h/t Stephen Foley) Lucas Jackson / Reuters Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss's Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust — a financial asset that would track the price of Bitcoin and be...
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The Soundtrack To The End Of This Horrible World Will Be One Of These Bitcoin...
Well, it’s been a nice few hundred thousand years of human existence, but it’s time to pack it up. Ride into extinction with one of these “songs.” fourthdayuniverse.com The thing about Bitcoin is that...
View ArticleThe Internet Reacts To Satoshi Nakamoto Denying He Invented Bitcoin
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Some Guy Lost A Bet So He Videotaped Himself Eating A Hat For 45 Minutes And...
Kids, don’t try this at home. Here's the entire video. We don't recommend watching it. youtube.com / Via reddit.com Back in November, reddit user Anndddyyyy got on thread about Bitcoin, and drunkely...
View ArticleHere Is The Saddest Bitcoin Photo You Will See For At Least An Hour
Three men on a couch. CoinSummit is a big conference about Bitcoin happening today in London. Twitter user @bn2b noticed the most important aspect of the event. Bravo.
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AirBaltic Becomes World's First Airline To Accept Bitcoin As Payment
The Latvian airline announced Tuesday it would accept bitcoins as payment from passengers when booking flights. AirBaltic announced Tuesday it would accept bitcoins as payment for its tickets to 60...
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This Is What Modern Versions Of "The Baby-Sitters Club" Would Look Like
Kristy and the gang have a lot more problems on Tinder than they do in babysitting. H/t Mashable. Artist Kate Gavino thought of what the babysitters' lives would look like today and created covers...
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China Loves Talking About Bitcoin
From Weibo to BTCMan. Not surprising when almost 60% of all trading on Bitcoin exchanges happens in yuan. caixin.com The majority of Bitcoin exchanges happen in China's currency, the yuan, but no...
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Selling Shiny Gold Bitcoins — at A Premium
Will luddites pay more to hold the digital cryptocurrency in their hands? Titan Bitcoin One has a copper brass alloy, another has an ounce of silver, the last an ounce of gold, and all feature the...
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Millions Of Dogecoins Stolen In Apparent Heist
Much robbery, so anger, etc. Users of the functional joke currency are reporting emptied wallets. Dogecoin users are in a minor panic after a popular coin storage service, Dogewallet, was apparently...
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Bitcoin Falls Flat Among Davos Crowd
The cybercurrency, which is supposed to make money transfers across the globe easier, is barely on the radar of those gathered at the World Economic Forum this week. Jim Urquhart / Reuters / Reuters...
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Winklevoss Twins Warn Of Restrictive Regulation One Day After Bitcoin Startup...
“Overregulation could cripple Bitcoin’s development,” Cameron Winklevoss said Tuesday. New York’s financial regulator said there needs to be “guardrails for this industry to help root out money...
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How One Startup Is Training Engineers To Handle Real-World Tech Disaster...
Payments startup Stripe’s “capture the flag” annual event is designed to teach engineers how to handle intense, worst-case scenario situations before they arise. BuzzFeed/Matthew Lynley Most engineers...
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Behind The Plan To Make A Major U.S.-Regulated Bitcoin Exchange
Second Market CEO and Bitcoin investor Barry Silbert is working on rolling out a regulated, US-based exchange following the Mt. Gox disaster. “This is the fun stuff.” Lucas Jackson / Reuters On...
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Investment Giant Fortress Reports Bitcoin Loss
The firm said it had taken a 18.5% loss on its relatively small stake. “It’s going to be worth a lot,” the fund’s co-chief investment officer Michael Novogratz said in October. Jim Urquhart / Reuters...
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Bitcoin Company CEO Dead Of Apparent Suicide
Autumn Radtke, CEO of bitcoin exchange company First Meta, was found dead in her Singapore apartment last week; suicide is suspected. The death comes during a tumultuous week for bitcoin exchanges...
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How Leah McGrath Goodman Found The Inventor Of Bitcoin
“A lot of amazing journalists I look up to, instead of looking for his name, looked at all the coders in the world who might have done it.” Update — 8:15 ET. Dorian Nakamoto has denied that he’s the...
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Alleged Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Denies Involvement
Updated: Nakamoto denied in an Associated Press interview that he had anything to do with the digital currency after reporters showed up at his Los Angeles-area home. Newsweek maintains, “The facts as...
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Newsweek Satoshi Author And Tina Brown Spar Over Questioned Bitcoin Exposé
“I’m so glad I’m not the editor,” said Tina Brown, Newsweek’s former editor. Leah McGrath Goodman, the Satoshi author, responds: “I find her comments not to be very friendly to Newsweek.” Bloomberg TV...
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New York State Opens Up To Bitcoin Exchanges
New York State’s Department of Financial Services will accept proposals to “operate virtual currency exchanges.” Jim Urquhart / Reuters / Reuters The New York State Department of Financial Services,...
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Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto Releases Official Statement "Unconditionally" Denying...
“I have no knowledge of nor have I ever worked on cryptography, peer to peer systems, or alternative currencies.” Updated with statement from Newsweek. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times / MCT In a...
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Here Are The New Digital Currencies That Hope To Become The "Bitcoin Of Pot"
“We’re the bad boys of cryptocurrency,” one founder said. dopecoin.com Two new cryptocurrencies hoping to make drug transactions more seamless are just hitting the market, aimed at assisting both...
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Bitcoins Will Be Taxed As Property, Not Currency
That’s going to be a bummer for a lot of bitcoin’s defenders. And it probably won’t help it get more mass adoption. Jim Urquhart / Reuters The U.S. government has finally decided how it will tax...
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Brock Pierce, Associate Of Embattled X-Men Director, Joins The Bitcoin...
Brock Pierce is a pioneering digital currency entrepreneur who has been sued for sexual abuse and fraud, and who lived in a mansion where Bryan Singer allegedly abused an underaged boy. “Completely...
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Bitcoin Entrepreneur Settles With SEC Over Unregistered Stock Sales
Erik Voorhees will pay more than $50,000 for raising money — in Bitcoin — for social media marketing and gambling companies that ran on the digital currency. One of Bitcoin enthusiast Mike Caldwell's...
View ArticleeBay CEO: PayPal Will Eventually Accept Bitcoin
John Donahoe told CNBC, “Over time, you’ll start to see it with some merchants accepting Bitcoin” on PayPal. He also said he owns some of the digital currency. Despite over a year of intense press...
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Bitcoin Will Sponsor A College Bowl Game
Not a drill. Brett McMurphy / Via Twitter: @mcmurphyespn Here's a thing that's happening in real life: On Dec.26 on ESPN, two very real and not made-up college sports teams will face off in the...
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New York Becomes First State To Propose Bitcoin Regulation
“These businesses are going to have to be licensed whether we like it not.” State financial regulator Benjamin Lawsky listens to testimony at a hearing in New York January 29, 2014. Eric Thayer /...
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Most Popular Bitcoin Wallet App Allowed Back Into App Store
“This is a big deal,” Blockchain CEO Nicolas Cary said. The app had been removed in February but has now returned following Apple’s publishing guidelines for digital currency apps released in June....
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Teenage BitCoin Afficionado Reportedly Arrested For Helping Man Join ISIS
A Virginia teenager was reportedly arrested by the FBI last week. He claimed to have founded the first Arabic language BitCoin exchange on the web. The FBI arrested a teenager in northern Virginia on...
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Goldman Sachs Makes Its First Big Investment In Bitcoin
Goldman is co-leading a $50 million financing round in Circle Internet Financial, a bitcoin wallet company. The investment lends some Wall Street credibility to the bitcoin world. Mark Lennihan / AP...
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FTC Settles With Developer Who Hijacked Phones To Mine Cryptocurrency
A game and rewards app was really a Trojan horse, installing virtual currency mining software on the phones of unsuspecting consumers. Dogecoin The thousands of consumers who downloaded the Prized app...
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The Canadian Senate Wants Canada To Be A Bitcoin Utopia
A Senate committee has fallen head over heels for cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin, an online cryptocurrency you can use to have weed delivered to you in the mail, was recently studied by the Canadian...
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Virginia Teen Jailed For 11 Years For Supporting ISIS On Twitter
A video released by ISIS in September 2014. Handout . / Reuters A Virginia teenager was jailed Friday for more than 11 years after pleading guilty to supporting ISIS on social media and assisting...
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Florida Man Pleads Not Guilty In Bitcoin Case Linked To Massive Bank Hack
Pinellas County Sheriff's Office booking photo shows Anthony Murgio, who is one of five defendants charged on July 21, 2015 in a case linked to the big hacking at JPMorgan Chase in this image released...
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Newly Unmasked Bitcoin "Founder" Has House Raided By Tax Officers
Satoshi Nakamoto is allegedly Australian computer genius Craig Wright. Just hours after Craig Wright was reportedly unmasked as the alleged mastermind behind Bitcoin, a team of tax officers has been...
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Los Angeles Hospital Pays $17,000 Bitcoin Ransom To Hackers
The hack prevented Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center from accessing its computer systems, prompting the hospital to pay a ransom for the encryption key. The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center,...
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Circle's Future Looks Like Less Bitcoin And More Banking
Circle After Circle publicly launched, it was hailed as the company that would bring the mysterious digital currency Bitcoin to the masses. With $76 million in venture capital and a CEO from the...
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Here's What We Know About The Australian Who Says He Invented Bitcoin
Australian entrepreneur Craig Steven Wright identified himself as the founder of Bitcoin — but many are skeptical. This is Australian entrepreneur Craig Steven Wright. On Monday he identified himself...
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Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? It Doesn't Matter, Bitcoin Investors Say
Mary Turner / Getty Images Nobody really knows if an Australian computer scientist and businessman named Craig Steven Wright is the inventor of Bitcoin, as he claimed this week. And for some people...
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Man Who Claims To Be Bitcoin Inventor Says He Doesn't Have Courage To Present...
Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright backed out his promise to present “extraordinary proof” that he is the mysterious founder of bitcoin. Craig Wright, the Australian entrepreneur who claimed to be...
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The Thief Who Stole $50 Million In Ether Can't Spend His Money
Archive Photos / Getty Images Imagine that you are a master thief, a real Danny Ocean. In your latest caper, you discover a way into the vault of a brand-new bank, one thought to be pretty much...
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Bitcoin Surges Following Trump Win
Anthony Wallace / AFP / Getty Images While the market meltdown some feared following a Donald Trump win in the presidential election hasn't taken place — the major US indices are hovering down less...
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