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MtGox.com. Flexcoin | the bitcoin bank - Bitcoin Bank - Access Bitcoins from Anywhere. Buttercoin. Digital Currency: Germany recognizes Bitcoins as a private money - FX & Commodities. Bitcoin: More Important Than You Realize. Neal Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age takes place in a future where encrypted currencies and e-commerce have moved most economic transactions into “darknets” beyond government’s capability of monitoring and regulation, causing tax bases around the world to implode and bringing on the collapse of most nation-states.

Encrypted currencies and darknet economies have been promoted by such thinkers as David de Ugarte and John Robb as a real-world model for resilient communities in the impending age of hollow states. So you can imagine my reaction to recent news of Bitcoin, “a Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Jason Calacanis and his colleagues at LAUNCH describe Bitcoin as “The Most Dangerous Project We’ve Ever Seen” (May 15, 2011). Not only is it “the most dangerous open-source project ever created,” but “possibly the most dangerous technological project since the Internet itself.” The beauty of Bitcoin is that there’s no central server network to shut down. Citations to this article: (23) Search - bitcoin mining. Sanitizing Bitcoin: This Company Wants To Track 'Clean' Bitcoin Accounts. China's Google Is Now Accepting Bitcoin. China's largest search service, Baidu, announced it would now accept bitcoin for its Jaisule service from the 14th of October.

Jaisule is the firm's firewall and DDOS protection service. The service essentially protects websites from malicious attacks that attempt to crash it by overloading it with external communications requests so that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic. A similar US-based service is Cloudflare. With a market cap of over $50 billion, the company may be the largest one yet to accept payments in bitcoin. The crypto currency has made impressive recent strides toward going mainstream, with bitcoin ATMs and grilled cheese trucks popping up in Canada and content management system Wordpress accepting payments in Bitcoin. And it comes as law enforcement ramps up crackdowns on illicit Bitcoin-based groups like Silk Road. Bitcoin has basically made up the value it lost in the wake of Silk Road's seizure and now stands at about $150 on the Mt.

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