“You should be taking this technology as seriously as you should have been taking the development of the Internet in the early 1990s,” Masters, a lithe 46-year-old Englishwoman with auburn hair and the proper diction of the Home Counties, explains to the rapt audience. “It’s analogous to e-mail for money.” Read the full article in […]
In this issue: Bitcoin rallying after the Mt. Gox affair. Top digital currencies by social media presence. More and more mainstream business accepting Bitcoin. Auroracoin of Iceland now second largest altcoin. Japan should adopt Bitcoin nationwide before the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Thomas Friedman from the New York Times is wrong again. Singapore becoming a Bitcoin […]
Bitcoin Shop Inc., an online retailer, became the first U.S. publicly traded company with the word “bitcoin” in its name, a hallmark for a virtual currency whose rapid growth has spawned intense regulatory scrutiny. Bitcoin Shop, which sells everything from soap to cellphones and takes bitcoin for payment, executed what is known as a reverse […]
This week’s issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek is dedicated to Bitcoin. Joel Flickinger’s two-bedroom home in the hills above Oakland, Calif., hums with custom-built computing gear. Just inside the front door, in a room anyone else might use as a den, he’s placed a desk next to a fireplace that supports a massive monitor, with cables […]