As soon as people learn a little bit about Bitcoin and how the system works, they will probably become enticed and begin to wonder how they can get some of this innovative cryptocurrency. They might like the fact that the value of the Bitcoin is on the rise or the idea of sending lots of money over long distances cheaply and almost instantly. Perhaps it is because they want to send money anonymously or just …
Update: GetBpendB has changed to Purse.io. The service is now open to the public so go try it out! The discount system has also changed quite a bit since writing this review. You can now get a 10% discount guaranteed while spending Bitcoins at Amazon and I often get 20% off or more!
OverviewA new service is under construction that is intended to enable people to buy Bitcoins through Amazon and to spend …
Although it is rapidly expanding, the Bitcoin user base is still relatively small. It is limited for the most part to people who are at least somewhat tech-savvy. Let's face it, in its natural form, Bitcoin requires you to download a piece of software, a client like Bitcoin-Qt or MultiBit, and keep track of long strings of random characters, or addresses, which are not easily memorized, and usually require a computer just to distribute.…
Before I dive into my attempt to answer that question, I should mention two similar but much easier questions that are often asked: "Will the government bring down Bitcoin?" and, "Can the government bring down Bitcoin?" Anyone who knows Bitcoin should produce a resounding, "No!" in response to either of those questions. The government will not bring down Bitcoin because…
Just hours after the news of the Silk Road's downfall began spreading, the most popular Bitcoin forum, bitcointalk.org, was hacked and quickly shut down. The video below shows the comic side of the hack, as rockets were sent cruising across the screen and exploding to the tune of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Towards the end, a message appears stating that the forum was seized by the FBI for being illegal, which is clearly a reference …
The infamous Dread Pirate Roberts, head of the "most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today," (Tarbell, see link below) has finally been identified and arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is huge news for the Bitcoin community. This multimillion dollar black market, known as the Silk Road, has been operating since early 2011, and according to the official police warrant for his arrest,…
The Bitcoin community is extremely diverse. Because of the global nature of cryptocurrency, people from all over the world can use Bitcoin regularly. Because of the innovative nature of Bitcoin, many huge companies with varying purposes have sprung up. Mt.Gox and Coinbase are Bitcoin exchanges, which allow users to trade fiat currency for Bitcoins. Butterfly Labs and Avalon ASICs are two of the many companies competing to design the best Bitcoin mining hardware. Still others, …
Many Bitcoin enthusiasts are concerned about the massive increases that the mining difficulty level has experienced over the past several months. As ASICs fly off the shelves, the network's hash rate skyrockets (we just recently hit 1 petahash, or 1 quadrillion hashes per second), which rapidly boosts the difficulty level, sometimes doubling it in less than a month.
In fact, most ASICs that are sold do not even exist yet, and the buyer has …
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