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John Law's week in bitcoin: coffee commerce, Capital One chocolate coins, and UK Silk Road users arrested.
John Law's week in bitcoin: coffee commerce, Capital One chocolate coins, and UK Silk Road users arrested.
Coinbase competitor btcQuick has amassed nearly $2m in sales.
Bittylicious and btcQuick have signed up with miiCard to cut the time it takes people to buy bitcoins.
SecondMarket's 'Bitcoin Investment Trust' will set the standard for best practices for bitcoin as an asset class.
Now Silk Road is offline, why not spend your spare bitcoins on ethically farmed beef and erotic bitcoin novels?
Do cryptosalaries and bitcoin gambling mirror early hunter-gatherer lifestyles? And how relevant are Dark Wallet's ideals, really?
Berlin has long been a hub for bitcoin, but recent regulation developments and media coverage are taking it further.
The Winklevoss twins and Peter Thiel have made bullish and bearish statements about bitcoin recently. Who's right?
New exchange BTC Markets promises real-time settlements and low commissions for Australian bitcoiners.
XBT is gaining industry legitimacy as the ISO currency code for bitcoin. Will it become the official currency code?
With Mt Gox's $5.5m counterclaim against CoinLab, two Bitcoin Foundation board members are now suing each other's companies.
Why is Belgium so nonchalant on bitcoin? Is Kraken right to focus on features over compliance? John Law investigates.
How strong are links between virtual economies and money laundering? A new task force hopes to find out.
CoinDesk has launched its Bitcoin Price Index to establish the standard retail price reference for bitcoin.
Kraken, a new bitcoin exchange has come out of beta. We spoke to the CEO to find out more.
CoinDesk welcomes Bitcoin Foundation's Executive Director Jon Matonis as a contributing editor.
The more influential people who talk about bitcoin, positive or negative, the better off it will probably be.
John Law investigates the latest bitcoin vulnerabilities, his inability to play pool, and StrongCoin's solution to exchange regulation.
How does the bitcoin economy compare to the amount of money in circulation in Peru, Turkey, Tajikistan and China?
CoinDesk takes a look at deflation and the effect it has on bitcoin. Can bitcoin survive as a currency?
Twerking, increasing mining activity, and the Bitcoin Foundation at Capitol Hill have all got John Law excited this week.
Could a wealth transfer effect be what caused the bitcoin price to skyrocket in April this year?
John Law explores Germany's classification of bitcoin and the solution for those tired of answering their friends' bitcoin-related questions.
CoinDesk has launched a bitcoin information centre, with guides on everything you need to know about digital currency.
John Law delves into Bitcoin secrecy and subpoenas, Bloomberg's bitcoin ticker, and Casascius coin hacking at Defcon.
Mt. Gox has resumed withdrawals, yet still has problems to overcome. Is it growing pains, or a banking bottleneck?
How would bitcoin miners, merchants and fiat currency be affected if the value of one BTC rockets to $500?
John Law interrupts your summer shenanigans with a 'bitcoin holiday guide'; covering Soylent, Raspberry Pi's and career prospects.
Headlines this week wanted to show Thailand being idiotic, or that cryptocurrencies were in serious trouble; ideally, both.
Bitcoin has taken hold in a number of countries of late, with the latest being Turkey.