Tag: Microsoft

Microsoft joins the Bitcoin movement

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Microsoft launched a cloud-based blockchain platform on Tuesday with Brooklyn-based start-up ConsensYs, which will allow financial institutions to experiment cheaply and easily with the technology underpinning bitcoin. The blockchain works as a huge, decentralized ledger of every bitcoin transaction, which is verified and shared by a global computer network and therefore is virtually tamper-proof. The […]

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Bing search engine now converts currencies to Bitcoin

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Microsoft revealed on 10th February that its Bing search engine will now automatically convert currency denominations to BTC in response to simple commands. These include queries such as “$13 to BTC” or “0.45 BTC to euros,” which when entered will reveal answers using the most up-to-date price data from San Francisco-based bitcoin wallet provider Coinbase. […]

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Bitcoin is the Linux of payments

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Bitcoin is the Linux of payments. And its killer apps will be for US dollars. by Druce Vertes I was scanning the news the other day, and someone on Hacker News mentioned that half the items above the fold on StreetEYE were about Bitcoin. And I said to myself, I haven’t seen the neckbeards this […]

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