Tag Archives: Peer-to-peer computing

The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin Movie Paints Rosy Picture

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Two brothers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nicholas and Daniel Mross, are the director and star, respectively, of the first Bitcoin documentary to hit the big screen, getting its premiere at the...

Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles Does Not Want to Come to America

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Mark Karpeles, the CEO of collapsed Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, has said via lawyers that he is “not willing” to go to America yet, refusing a US court demand to testify in person over the issue. The...

Could ‘Multisig’ Help Bring Consumer Protection to Bitcoin Transactions?

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The bitcoin world, which has never been dull, is getting even more interesting with the growth of multi-signature approaches—called “multisig”—for authorizing transactions. This has the potential to...

Warren Buffett Says Bitcoin Is ‘A Mirage;’ Why Marc Andreessen Thinks He’s Wrong

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Earlier this month, famed dealmaker Warren Buffett warned investors to stay away from Bitcoin, calling it “a mirage,” saying that, while it may be a better way of transmitting money, the “idea that...

Finding Lost Bitcoin Might Mean IRS Finds You

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The bankrupt Japanese Bitcoin exchange MtGox discovered over 200,000 lost Bitcoins valued at over $116 million. The coins apparently showed up in an old Bitcoin wallet format. MtGox’s CEO said...

Linguistic Analysis:Newsweek Named Wrong Man As Bitcoin’s Creator

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A linguistic analysis done at Forbes’ request indicates that Newsweek fingered the wrong man when it tried to unmask the creator of the digital currency, Bitcoin. Bitcoin allows users to conduct...

Hackers Hit Mt. Gox Exchange’s CEO, Claim To Publish Evidence Of Fraud

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The Bitcoin community has been angrily pressing for details on what the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has described as a massive hacker attack that stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of its users...

Bitcoin’s Keyser Söze Revealed?

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The controversy roiling the Bitcoin community continues with the outing and then cloaking of the man fingered by Newsweek as Bitcoin’s Louis Pasteur. But the unassuming Dorian S. Nakamoto, a...