Currency articles

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  Online gambling sites adopt Bitcoin in an effort to circumvent the law

  By Ben Kersey on January 4, 2013 07:22 am + 26 comments

  Online gambling sites are turning their attention towards Bitcoin, with BusinessWeek describing how Continue reading…

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  Microsoft confirms cash for Xbox content in Windows 8, Microsoft Points remain for Xbox 360

  By Tom Warren on October 9, 2012 03:24 pm + 72 comments

  Earlier this week The Verge reported that Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system now defaults to Continue reading…

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  Microsoft Points phased out in favor of cash in Windows 8

  By Tom Warren on October 8, 2012 06:31 am + 75 comments

  Microsoft has started to remove its Points payments system as the default way to pay for music Continue reading…

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  Can the Bitcoin Foundation build legitimacy for an outlaw currency?

  By Adi Robertson on October 1, 2012 12:01 pm + 35 comments

  Some of the biggest names in the world of Bitcoin, the unregulated virtual currency with a small but Continue reading…

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  BitInstant reportedly launching Bitcoin debit card within two months (update)

  By Amar Toor on August 21, 2012 01:48 am + 22 comments

  BitInstant is reportedly set to launch an international debit card based on the BitCoin virtual Continue reading…

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  German art student builds Euro-to-Bitcoin vending machine

  By Louis Goddard on July 16, 2012 12:02 pm + 20 comments

  Despite growing popularity in the shadier parts of the internet, the anonymous, peer-to-peer Continue reading…

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  Conceptual artist builds money-powered currency exchange

  By Jeff Blagdon on April 9, 2012 12:13 am + 6 comments

  Money functions as a store of value, a way for people to save the fruits of their labors and consume Continue reading…

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  Canada to retire the penny

  By T.C. Sottek on March 30, 2012 12:27 pm + 88 comments

  Physical currency is one of the oldest forms of human technology still in use today, and the lowly Continue reading…

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  Bitcoin exchange Tradehill suspends trading, returns funds

  By Jeff Blagdon on February 14, 2012 10:46 am + 16 comments

  Bitcoin, the alternative currency based on a clever application of cryptography, has had its fair Continue reading…

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  Olympus forecasts larger $412 million loss for fiscal 2011

  By Jeff Blagdon on February 13, 2012 06:04 am + 5 comments

  Beleaguered Japanese camera and medical instrument maker Olympus is forecasting a ¥32 billion Continue reading…