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Cryptography expert Satoshi Nakamoto[1] has created the first completely decentralized, anonymous, electronic currency, called Bitcoin. Bitcoins are divisible digital tokens that can be exchanged across the internet or stored on disk. Bitcoin differs greatly from traditional government issued fiat currency and regulated banking in several important aspects:
Pour les amateurs de jeu en ligne et particulièrement de poker, voici quelques sites qui ont déjà vu le jour et qui permettent de all-in vos bitcoin. Un moyen comme un autre de gagner quelques BC quand on a pas les machines qui permettent de miner efficacement ;) http://btcontilt.com/ : encore en phase beta, Btcontilt propose des tournois de poker (dont freerolls) réguliers pour les amateurs de hold’em. https://betco.in/ : table de poker que je n’ai pas pu essayer parce que c’était vide… Mais bon, faut bien en parler si on veut que ça se remplisse. C’est hier que la monnaie décentralisée a franchi un cap en traversant le plancher des 7 millions de bitcoins en circulation. Pas de changement au niveau de l’évolution du cours qui lui baisse de plus en plus, s’échangeant actuellement pour moins de $8 sur les places courantes.
A month ago I heard folks talking online about a virtual currency called bitcoin that is untraceable and un-hackable. Folks were using it to buy and sell drugs online, support content they liked and worst of all -- gasp! -- play poker.
The P2P Foundation thinks that readers may be interested in the following recent development. First, one word about the structure of the P2P Foundation. The Foundation is first of all a virtual and physical community of contributors, people who volunteer content for our wiki, blog and other resources.
A few months ago we looked at Irish CurrencyFair , a peer-to-peer site that effectively removes banks and other middlemen from currency exchange. Pushing the peer-to-peer concept even further into the world of finance, Bitcoin is a collectively managed and open-source digital currency that’s completely independent of any central authority. Now in beta, Bitcoin bills itself as “the first digital currency that is completely distributed.”