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• http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillanBitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency, has a big problem. Just ask David Spitzer.
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Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency, has a big problem. Just ask David Spitzer.
Auction giant eBay wants to know how you feel about Bitcoin.
Over the last decade, $103 million in fake U.S. dollars "made in Peru" has been seized - nearly half since 2010, Peruvian and U.S. officials say.
The Root of the Problem is Debt
Charles Lee was a software engineer at Google, spending his days hacking networking code for the search giant’s new-age operating system, ChromeOS. But in his spare time, he rewrote Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency.
A delay in potential U.S. military action in Syria and improving economic data from China and Europe boosted appetite for riskier assets on Monday, lifting world shares and sending the yen lower.
Gold and silver will survive as a store of value and wealth.
One of the cardinal rules of banking states that during a currency crisis good money leaves and there is a rush for specie or hard assets.
Market and peace advocates have been granted a tool of unimaginable power for the subversion of the state.
Bitcoin has been recognized for legal and tax purposes in Germany, making it the first country to take an official stance on the status of using the online currency as money.
Equity markets saw their highest volume in 7 weeks as the major indices plunged the most since June 20th, falling back to their lowest level in 5 weeks.
The New York Department Of Financial Services just posted its full release on the report that it sent subpoenas to Bitcoin merchants.
The case revolves around Bitcoin Savings and Trust, a virtual Bitcoin-based hedge fund suspected of being a scam. BTCST shut down in August 2012, and the Securities and Exchange Commission formally charged founder Trendon Shavers
One of these charts represents the equity market of an over-levered, recovery-hoping, money-printing nation that shows no signs of removing its training-wheels-efforts to devalue its currency and reflate its economy... the other is Japan.
One of the areas where government would like to have absolute control is in the area of money creation. By having control of money creation, the government can, of course, control a monetary spigot that allows it to spend well beyond its ability to t
Currency -- the bills and coins you carry in your wallet and in your bank account -- is founded on marketing, on the belief that banks and governments are trustworthy.
Currency -- the bills and coins you carry in your wallet and in your bank account -- is founded on marketing, on the belief that banks and governments are trustworthy.
When the currency collapses, a stock market crash is right on its heels. Glass-Steagall's repeal guarantees a banking collapse. Your life savings will be wiped out. The financial meltdown cascades like a roaring tsunami racing across the open ocean.
Entered By: Dave HodgesAs we get a breather in the indiscriminate sell-off, I think it is a good time to consider what it is that actually drives the faith of various emerging markets.
Ask anyone in town where the best burger is, and Late’s will likely top the list. And both the manager and the owner seem to understand the economic landscape — and the government’s “quantitative easing” polices, or money-printing.
Developing a cosmic cash system to meet the needs of future space tourists and interplanetary settlers is a complicated task that will take several years to complete, leaders of the new project say.
Scientists searching for extraterrestrials are teaming up with one of the world's best-known online-transaction companies to create the first system for space-based payments for astronauts and tourists venturing beyond Earth, project officials announ
In a free society with a market-driven economy, payment privacy and payment finality are legitimate and useful features of a currency – physical or digital. To believe otherwise is to submit to the erroneous notion that full, involuntary financial tr
What in the world is China up to?
There have been several bills printed that dwarf those wimpy $100s in your wallet. In fact, during the recent battle in Congress over extending the debt limit, one of the solutions proposed by academics and commentators to prevent default was
Despite countless examples that prove the contrary, detractors, debunkers and non believers continually argue that the Bilderberg group holds no power, and that it is just a talking shop for elite has-beens.
The US is studying the potential risk from online payment mechanisms like PayPal and Bitcoin. Bankers have expressed worries that newer players in the online marketplace could have negative implications for the financial system.
The amount of U.S. currency circulating outside banks rose sharply in July/August 2001.
An unexplained significant increase in the amount of US currency in circulation causes one economist to later consider whether some individuals might have had foreknowledge of the impending September 11 attacks.
Today, the Department of Justice arrested the founders of Liberty Reserve, a digital currency service, and charged them with money laundering.