Inside Butterfly Labs: The ASIC bitcoin mining arms race
CoinDesk visits Butterfly Labs and looks at the factors involved in the bitcoin mining arms race.
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Jul 22, 2013 at 1:52 p.m. UTC
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Inside Butterfly Labs: The challenges of producing bitcoin mining hardware
CoinDesk visits Butterfly Labs and reports on how they've managed customer expectations and why they don't mine themselves.
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Jul 17, 2013 at 12:43 p.m. UTC
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The 6 weirdest alternative currency stories ever
CoinDesk takes a look at some of the weirdest alternative currency stories over the past few years.
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Jul 13, 2013 at 1:14 p.m. UTC
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Bitcoin and M-Pesa: Why money in Kenya has gone digital
Bitcoin has major potential in Africa. But you might not realize how important electronic money already is there.
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Jul 10, 2013 at 4:39 p.m. UTC
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Why Edward Snowden should be using bitcoins
No bank accounts? No credit cards? Snowden could use bitcoin in order to survive.
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Jul 6, 2013 at 10:28 a.m. UTC
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Should corporations develop their own virtual currencies like bitcoin?
Virtual currencies can ensure that consumers will purchase goods within a company's own ecosystem, but do consumers actually find them useful?
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Jun 28, 2013 at 8:26 a.m. UTC
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Does Google Wallet's slow adoption bode badly for bitcoin?
Google is having issues getting people to actually use Wallet. Will bitcoin face the same issues in becoming a conventional payment method?
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Jun 21, 2013 at 7:21 p.m. UTC
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Green address – the solution to slow Bitcoin transactions?
One of the reasons why Bitcoin has experienced success over other digital currencies is its ability to overcome what is known as the double-spend problem.
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Jun 19, 2013 at 2:40 p.m. UTC
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Draper 'entrepreneur heroes' University welcomes tuition in bitcoins
It's no wonder that Draper University of Heroes, based in Silicon Valley, is the first school to accept fees for tuition in bitcoins.
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Jun 18, 2013 at 7:00 a.m. UTC
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Bridgewalker: the fast Bitcoin wallet for Android
A brand new mobile Bitcoin wallet called Bridgewalker hit the market promising to better bridge the gap between dollars and Bitcoin.
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Jun 12, 2013 at 11:29 a.m. UTC
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