Digital Trends |
'Cryptocurrency' on the rise: Bitcoin tops $1K
USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO -- Happy Thanksgiving, Bitcoin. The value of the so-called cryptocurrency surged above $1,000 as it becomes easier to use as a way to pay and easier to access for investors looking for an alternative to gold. One Bitcoin was briefly worth ... A single Bitcoin was worth $10 a year ago -- today it's worth $1000 Bitcoin price zooms through $1000 as enthusiasm grows Bitcoin goes nuts, jumps over $1000 per Bitcoin |
Much Ado About Bitcoin
New York Times FOR the obsessive followers of the volatile virtual currency bitcoin, the price of a single bitcoin at the time their fixation began holds undue significance. I know one bitcoin cost around $9 when I first stumbled on it in the summer of 2011. That was ... Bitcoin to open shop |
The Guardian |
Missing: hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
The Guardian Although Bitcoins have recently become part of the zeitgeist – with Virgin saying it will accept the currency for its Virgin Galactic flights, and central bankers considering its position in finance seriously – Howells generated his in early 2009, when ... IT pro says he threw out 7500 bitcoins, now worth $7.5 million Man Throws Away Trove of Bitcoin Worth $7.5 Million Bitcoin blunder: Man throws $7.2mn of crypto-currency into landfill |
Virtual currency bitcoin bursts through real $1000 barrier
NBCNews.com Many analysts and investors have labeled bitcoin's unfettered rise a bubble, yet greater awareness of digital currencies and last week's U.S. senate seal of approval, paved the way for fresh gains. Bitcoin traded as high as $1,030 on the Mt. Gox ... |
A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail
New York Times Mr. Hayek presumably would have approved of bitcoin. The currency's issuer is an unknown computer programmer, about as far from a government as can be imagined. Right now, bitcoin is tiny; at the current exaggerated exchange rate, the total projected ... Bitcoin is a step back not forward |
New York Times (blog) |
A Surge in Value for Bitcoin and Currencies Similar to It
New York Times (blog) This has been quite the week for the peer-to-peer digital currencies. Exactly seven days ago, Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, was trading at about $615, but early Wednesday morning it had passed $1,000 on Mt.Gox, the leading Bitcoin exchange ... Bitcoin needs to learn from past e-currency failures With Bitcoin Worth $1000, Traders Claim It's Fueling the "Best Performing Fund ... Bitcoin developers offer $10000 virtual bounty to fix mystery Mac bug |
The Guardian |
Researchers Retract Report That Linked Bitcoin Creator and Silk Road
New York Times (blog) Two Israeli computer scientists who over the weekend published a paper describing a financial connection between the Bitcoin peer-to-peer transaction system and the operator of Silk Road, an Internet black market, have backed away from the claim after ... Texas Hacker Debunks Link Between Bitcoin Founder and Online Drug Market Report linking Bitcoin and Silk Road retracted Link between 'Satoshi' bitcoin account and the Silk Road dissolves |
UPDATE 2-Bitcoin price zooms through $1000 as enthusiasm grows
Reuters NEW YORK Nov 27 (Reuters) - The price of the digital currency bitcoin soared above $1,000 for the first time on Wednesday, extending a 400 percent surge in less than a month that some see as a growing bubble in an asset that is still a mystery to many. |
Bitcoin soars above $1000 on popular exchange
Washington Post (blog) At the start of November, one Bitcoin traded for just a bit over $200. By mid-month it had soared to $400. Then, around the time of the Senate hearings, it rose briefly above $900. Earlier Wednesday, the price broke through the psychologically ... |
New York Times |
Virgin Galactic to accept bitcoin as payment for space flights
Los Angeles Times Virgin's acceptance of bitcoins comes at an interesting time for the virtual currency. It has been the subject of recent congressional hearings. One university in Cyprus started accepting bitcoins as payment for tuition and other school fees, and ... Render Unto Caesar, but Who Backs Bitcoin? Bitcoin can only hope to be a second-rate version of gold |
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