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Autumn Radtke: Bitcoin Exchange CEO Autumn Radtke Found Dead

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Autumn Radtke’s tragic death from unknown causes has shocked the Bitcoin empire as well as her family and friends. She was an American citizen who headed First Meta, a Singaporean digital currency...

Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox is Financially Doomed

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A total loss of 750,000 in bitcoins occurred on Mt. Gox. This was announced on Friday and it was tragic news indeed. Mt. Gox is bankrupt and it has nothing to show the world in the way of any...

The Feds Are Ready To Sell $25 Million of Bitcoin Seized From The Silk Road

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One of the bigger wallets on the Bitcoin blockchain is going to be emptied in the near future. Back in October, when the feds took down the online drug bazaar Silk Road, they seized the nearly 30,...
    






Trade BitCoins Through Your Social Graph… With A Little Bit Of Help From Your BitFriends

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BitCoin is the virtual currency world’s standard bearer, but it’s not for the faint of heart. From the cryptographic underpinnings of the financial system to building your own Bitcoin mining rig,...
    






A $100 Worth Of Litecoin A Year Ago Is Worth $30,000 Today

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Last month, we subjected readers to a hindsight lament: How you should have spent $100 at the beginning of 2013. Using the Forbes time travel machine, we went back to last January and dropped...
    






Best Of FORBES: 30 Under 30, Story Of Snapchat: World’s Hottest App?

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“FORBES launched the third annual 30 Under 30, a tally of the brightest stars in 15 different fields under the age of 30. This is an exhilarating time to be young and ambitious. Never before has...
    






China Bites Into Bitcoin

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Bitcoins were worth nothing in 2009, when the digital cryptocurrency was first minted on the computer of its mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, who claimed to live in Japan. Four years later the...
    






Bitcoin’s Incredible Year

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Last year at this time, valued at just $13.50, one Bitcoin could get you a movie ticket if you could find a theater that had 1) heard of Bitcoin and 2) accepted it. Fat chance. Luckily, Bitcoin...
    






Overstock.com Is Going To Accept Bitcoin In 2014

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Overstock.com has plans to become the first major U.S. retailer to accept bitcoin. In an interview with newsBTC, Overstock.com CEO and Chairman Patrick Byrne said that the company will start...