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Exchange rates: Inside the Bitcoin economy. Bitcoins: Why They're More Than a Bubble. The volatile rise-and-fall of Bitcoin has prompted lots of stories explaining why the online virtual currency is a classic bubble.
Many compare it to tulip mania in 17th century Holland, where prices of rare tulip bulbs soared to absurd heights and then crashed, ruining the speculative investors who had bought them. But the Bitcoin phenomenon is more than a bubble. It says something important about the current and future state of the global economy. This will change everything. Crypto-anarchisme. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Le crypto-anarchisme – ou la crypto-anarchie – est une philosophie anarchiste et individualiste qui prône l’emploi de la cryptographie dans le but de renforcer le secret, l’intimité et la vie privée sur Internet. Les crypto-anarchistes ont pour objectif de créer des communautés virtuelles afin de protéger leur vie privée et leur liberté politique. 21 Things I Learned About Bitcoin From Living On It For A Week. Let's Get to Know Crypto Currency (BTC/LTC) Feds seize money from Dwolla account belonging to top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. The Department of Homeland Security has apparently shut down a key mobile payments account associated with Mt.
Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange. Chris Coyne, the co-founder of online dating service OKCupid, tweeted out an e-mail he received from Dwolla this afternoon. The e-mail states that neither Coyne, nor presumably any other Dwolla user, will be able to transfer funds to Mt. Gox. Dwolla confirmed the change to the New York Observer , which first reported the story. "The Department of Homeland Security and US District Court for the District of Maryland issued a ‘Seizure Warrant’ for the funds associated with Mutum Sigillum’s Dwolla account (a.k.a. It isn't yet clear why this seizure happened, and Dwolla isn't saying anything beyond confirming the court order. Amazon’s new “virtual currency” of dubious benefit to customers. Straight from Amazon's press room comes the news that Amazon has officially launched Amazon Coins, which the company excitingly claims are "a great way for customers to save money when they buy apps, games and in-app items" for Kindle Fire users.
To help everyone start using Amazon Coins, Amazon has deposited 500 of them into the accounts of all existing and new Kindle Fire users in the US. Amazon Coins were initially announced back in February, with the company saying they're primarily designed to benefit developers and consumers. "For customers, Amazon Coins is an easy way to purchase apps and in-app items on Kindle Fire, and for developers it’s another opportunity to drive traffic, downloads and increased monetization," proclaims this morning's press release. The biggest problem is the inevitable misalignment between "coins" purchased and "coins" used.
This is a problem with Microsoft Points, or indeed any points system. Wary of Bitcoin? A guide to some other cryptocurrencies. When Governments Take Your Money, Bitcoin Looks Really Good. The tiny island of Cyprus became the center of the financial universe over the weekend, after its leaders, facing financial collapse and pressure from EU authorities, announced a plan that would let the government withdraw money directly from citizens' savings accounts in order to fund a massive bailout of its flailing banking sector.
As of publication, the measure seemed bound to be rejected by Parliament. But the idea lingers, and has sent shockwaves across a Europe struggling for financial stability. Hear that? That's the sound of Pandora's Box being opened. Forget about the taxpayer bailouts that sparked Occupy Wall Street, European officials are now proposing directly picking the pockets of their citizens by going straight for their banking deposits, a move that Reuters says has “potentially severe consequences for the rest of the troubled euro zone.” Cypriots are righteously pissed. Bitcoin crashes, losing nearly half of its value in six hours. Trade - Bitcoin. A propos de la page "Nous acceptons Bitcoin" Voici une liste des sites qui acceptent Bitcoin.
Les nouveaux fournisseurs de services sont les bienvenus puisqu'ils aident à établir la devise. Ne listez que les services qui sont présentement accessibles et qui acceptent les bitcoins. Attention: Il est de votre responsabilité de vous assurer de la réputation des fournisseurs de services cités dans cette page. Le fait que ces sites apparaissent dans cette liste n'est pas une garantie de qualité. Www.links.org/files/decentralised-currencies.pdf. Www.links.org/files/distributed-currency.pdf. Gold in them bits: Inside the world’s most mysterious Bitcoin mining company. This is the first in a two-part series exploring Butterfly Labs and its lineup of dedicated Bitcoin-mining hardware.
In part one, we look at the company and the experiences customers have had with it. Peer-to-peer lending. Peer-to-peer lending (also known as person-to-person lending, peer-to-peer investing, and social lending; abbreviated frequently as P2P lending) is the practice of lending money to unrelated individuals, or "peers", without going through a traditional financial intermediary such as a bank or other traditional financial institution.
This lending takes place online on peer-to-peer lending companies' websites using various different lending platforms and credit checking tools. Overview[edit] The interest rates are set by lenders who compete for the lowest rate on the reverse auction model, or are fixed by the intermediary company on the basis of an analysis of the borrower's credit.[1] Borrowers assessed as having a higher risk of default are assigned higher rates.
Lenders mitigate the individual risk that borrowers will not pay back the money they received by choosing which borrowers to lend to, and mitigate total risk by diversifying their investments among different borrowers. Bitcoins charts and analysis. Germany recognizes Bitcoin as a “private money,” subject to capital gains tax. In response to a query by a member of parliament, the German Finance Ministry has declared (Google Translate) that it accepts bitcoins as a “unit of account.”
The Ministry added that bitcoins are a sort of “private money” and that mining bitcoins constitutes “private money creation.” The Ministry also clarified that if a German taxpayer holds bitcoins for more than a year, she is exempt from paying the 25 percent capital gains tax. Federal judge: Bitcoin, “a currency,” can be regulated under American law. Why Bitcoins Are Just Like Gold. King Tut's golden burial mask, via Bjørn Christian Tørrissen Plenty of people still have a difficult time wrapping their heads around what bitcoin is or why it even has value, especially as the virtual cryptocurrency continues to scale record heights.
How isn't this a Ponzi scheme, many have wondered? A good way to look at it is to compare it to gold. What gives a shiny metal that doesn't have a whole lot of real utility--outside of jewelry and limited industrial use--any kind of real world value? The only reason gold has value is because one day, way back when, long before recorded history, society simply decided that this yellowish precious metal should represent “money.” Bitcoin: The Cyberpunk Cryptocurrency. Jeffrey Tucker: Bitcoin Makes The Dollar Look Like A Dinosaur.