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Bitcoin buzz bypasses shoppers

With more retailers accepting the digital currency, few shoppers are actually using it. Since it’s inception five years ago, bitcoin hype has spread across the globe. “Bitcoin accepted here” stickers have popped up in restaurants and stores. It’s even made it to Twin Mountain Country…
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November 29, 2014
Bitcoin Politics

Bitcoin Black Friday Is on the Way

Bitcoin Black Friday “Black Friday” is one of the busiest shopping days in the United States. It is a day of unbridled consumerism on steroids, when people pitch tents and lay sleeping bags in front of retail stores and malls across the country, getting ready…
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November 27, 2014
Bitcoin Politics

Samsung Electronics President Joins BitFury Advisory Board

Samsung Electronics President Joins BitFury Advisory Board BitFury — a popular cryptocurrency mining company that’s also recently focused on making seed investments  (and now also bitcoin transaction processing)– has announced today that they’re making yet another addition to their strategic advisory board.This time around, the individual…
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November 24, 2014
Bitcoin Politics

EBay CEO Ready to Experiment with Bitcoin

EBay CEO Ready to Experiment with Bitcoin ForexMinute.com – In his interview to Wall Street Journal , EBay Marketplace President and CEO Devin Wenig said that his company and PayPal is planning to experiment with Bitcoin in near future. He further admitted his openness towards…
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November 24, 2014
Bitcoin Politics

BitFury Adds Samsung Strategy Chief to Advisor Board

Young Sohn, BitFury BitFury has announced that president and chief strategy officer for Samsung Electronics Young Sohn has joined the company as an advisor.Formed in September , BitFury 's advisory board aims to assist the management and corporate development of the industrial bitcoin mining company. The…
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November 24, 2014
Bitcoin Politics

Internet Gambling Ban: Bitcoin Boom or Bane?

It would be difficult to find a nonpolitician to agree that the United States has anything close to a functional Congress. The conservative wave that seems to be sweeping the United States political world actually does little to defend an entity that does not contribute…
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November 21, 2014
Bitcoin Politics

Finland Classifies Bitcoin as VAT-Exempt Financial Service

Finland flag shutterstock Finnish regulators have classified bitcoin as a financial service, thus granting it VAT-exempt status.The Finnish Central Board of Taxes (CBT) judged bitcoin to be a financial service in ruling 034/2014, which states that bitcoin purchases qualify as “banking services” under the EU Value Added…
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November 21, 2014
Bitcoin Politics

Mozilla Now Accepting Bitcoin in Response to User Demand

Mozilla, the open-source development community behind the popular Firefox web browser, is now accepting bitcoin donations. The Mozilla Foundation , the non-profit entity that provides support for the community’s broad open-source development, will be partnering with Coinbase to accept bitcoin contributions. The California-based bitcoin services provider …
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November 21, 2014
Bitcoin Politics

Bitcoin Analysis: Week of Nov 16 (Arbitrage)

Bitcoin Analysis Note From the Author: Please follow me on Twitter ( @Tone_LLT ) for additional updates to the state of Bitcoin’s price volatility. Last Week’s Review Due to the volatile action of Bitcoin, a special Mid-Week Update was published and in it we concluded…
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November 18, 2014
Bitcoin Politics

What Ban? Russia’s VK.com is Mining Bitcoin

This year, at Riga’s International Economic Forum , CoinTelegraph had the chance to catch up with Yuri Ivanov , Head of Partner Relations at Russia’s largest and most popular social network, Vkontakte (VK.com).As of January 2014, VK.com had at least 239 million accounts. VK is…
cinerama
November 15, 2014

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