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The Story Behind ‘Milk Road,’ The Little Girls’ Bitcoin Cookie Stand

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Last month, a Bitcoin-loving Redditor spotted a cookie and lemonade stand in San Francisco’s Noe Valley that accepted the virtual currency. After buying a Snickerdoodle for a fraction of a Bitcoin,...

NY ‘Silk Road’ bust arrests 2 Bitcoin operators

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2 Bitcoin exchangers arrested in 'Silk Road' drug prosecution are charged with conspiracy NEW YORK (AP) — The top executive of a Manhattan-based Bitcoin company and a Florida Bitcoin exchanger have...

This is the Typical Bitcoin Shopper

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When Overstock began accepting Bitcoins on Jan. 9, it immediately grossed $100,000 in Bitcoin orders, according to its CEO Patrick Byrne. As he told CBS affiliate KUTV in Salt Lake City, “I’ve been...

Of Course A Book About Bitcoin Should Be Sold For Bitcoin

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Last spring, people were getting all excited about Bitcoin because its value surged from a movie ticket to a fancy dinner for two in response primarily to Cypriots freaked out that their money was...
    






Bitcoin Breaks Out, You Can Now Pay The IRS In Cryptocurrency

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As bitcoin moves away from being known only to the tech cognoscenti and becomes a real viable currency that is adopted broadly, more organizations arise that look to leverage all this attention and...
    






$10: One Perspective On What Bitcoin Will Be Worth In 2014

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The Wild West has become a popular metaphor for the unregulated Bitcoin market. Like in old cowboy films, the world of Bitcoin has not only miners and modern a gold rush, but the requisite intrigue...
    






Bitcoin Anonymity Upgrade Zerocoin To Become An Independent Cryptocurrency

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When a group of cryptographers launched Zerocoin last year, they hoped their cryptography project could upgrade Bitcoin to be as anonymous as its most privacy-focused users have always wanted it to...