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John Carpenter

Why Bitcoin Matters - MARC ANDREESSEN - 0 views

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    Marc Andreessen's venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has invested just under $50 million in Bitcoin-related start-ups. The firm is actively searching for more Bitcoin-based investment opportunities. He does not personally own more than a de minimis amount of Bitcoin.
John Carpenter

Bitcoin: Marc Andreessen Explains It All for You | TIME.com - 0 views

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    A web visionary makes the case for virtual currency having world-changing implications.
John Carpenter

eBay UK to allow Bitcoin sales in 'virtual currency' category - 0 views

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    After PayPal President David Marcus tweeted 'We're believers in BTC,' eBay's UK branch says it will let people sell digital currencies in its classified ads section starting on February 10. Read this article by Dara Kerr on CNET News.
John Carpenter

Bitcoin is not just digital currency. It's Napster for finance. - Term Sheet - 0 views

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    Bitcoin will move beyond mere currency to an open-source, decentralized exchange for everything from futures contracts to car rentals. Its more like the bittorrent of finance than the napster.
John Carpenter

Bitcoin Judged Commodity in Finland After Failing Money Test - 0 views

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    Bitcoin doesn't meet the definition of a currency or even an electronic payment form in Finland, where the central bank has instead decided to categorize the software as a commodity.
John Carpenter

How bitcoin makes transactions cheaper - 0 views

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    Solving the double spending problem is a big deal
John Carpenter

The U.S. government's bitcoin bonanza: How, where and when to sell? - 0 views

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    NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan are sitting on a multimillion-dollar bitcoin gold mine. And it could get much bigger.Federal authorities hauled in 29,655 units of the digital currency. Litetree is the only US based exchange that could provide a platform to sell the bitcoins .
John Carpenter

From Space Travel to Pizza, Your Bitcoin Goes Far These Days - MoneyBeat - WSJ - 0 views

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    The decision of the Sacramento Kings basketball team to let its fans use bitcoin to buy tickets, jerseys, hot dogs and other team products may go down as a key moment in the digital currency's coming of age.
John Carpenter

UK Bows To Pressure, Likely To Reverse Course On Taxation Of Bitcoin: Will The US Be Next? - 0 views

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    While the US has yet to offer a solid position on the taxation of Bitcoin, other countries are moving ahead with policy decisions. To date, Singapore and Germany have been cited as those with the most definitive answers on taxing Bitcoin. Are they about to be surpassed by the UK?
John Carpenter

Venture Capitalist Chris Dixon Believes Bitcoin Will Hit $100,000 - 2 views

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    The Andreessen Horowitz partner believes a single bitcoin could one day be worth $100,000.
John Carpenter

Credit card security is broken. Here's how Bitcoin could help fix it. - 0 views

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    Bitcoin's decentralized architecture makes it easier to beef up security.
Prashant Kolekar

What is Bitcoins? How to Buy Bitcoins? - 1 views

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    Late in 2009, some unknown person came up with concept of Bitcoins using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. ALl transactions are being made without involving any third part person like Bank or PayPal. So there is no transaction fees or no any person who is responsible for transactions taking place. In short everything is supposed to happen anonymously. On can buy anything using Bitcoins, so that can be pizza or anything. Read full Article: http://buybitcoinsguide.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/what-is-bitcoins-how-to-buy-bitcoins/
Prashant Kolekar

Bitcoins: What is it? Why everyone is talking about it? - 1 views

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    People are turning to online shopping now a days due to evolution in field of internet. The world is getting closer day by day by means of Internet. From ordering food to shopping shoes, from learning to final exams, everything is becoming online now a days. When the things come to shopping, users are worried about methods of payment used for shopping goods online. Current methods of payment includes credit card/debit card/cash on delivery or paypal. But 3 years back, one new term introduced to world called "Bitcoins" which is supposed to be one of the major revolution in the field of online shopping. Now what is this "Bitcoin"? Read full Article: http://www.tecmetic.com/bitcoins-what-is-it-why-everyone-is-talking-about-it/
Prashant Kolekar

How to Buy Bitcoins - 100% Safe and Quick Way - 1 views

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    Bitcoins is supposed to be latest and rapidly growing currency that is discovered in 2009 by some unknown person. Main thing about Bitcoins is all transactions happen anonymously and there is no any third party which can keep track of such transactions. According to Bitcoins wiki, Bitcoins comes into existence by mutually agreed upon set of protocols, which is called as "Bitcoins Mining". Read full Article: https://sites.google.com/site/buybitcoinsguide/
Prashant Kolekar

What are Altcoins? - Everything You Need to Know - 1 views

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    After Bitcoins hit the market successfully, new crypto currencies were developed with few different unique and interesting characteristics relative to BTC. Some emerged in order to emulate BTC's success while others tried to perceive the limitations in BTC and prove competitively stronger. One of them is AltCoins (ALT). ALT adds random block reward mechanism. BTC could not completely be accepted as a legal currency since it is decentralized. Some potential points were left out in opposition to the challenge of its mission as a decentralized currency. However, today the BTC has transformed from a decentralized to a much more centralized one as its computational power is been controlled and managed by large data centers. Read full Article: http://buybitcoinsguide.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/what-is-bitcoins-how-to-buy-bitcoins/
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