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Bitcoin to overtake PayPal in 2014. The Laureate Trust has announced, via a press release to The Digital Journal, that they expect Bitcoin to pass PayPal in USD transaction volume later

The perfect storm hit Bitcoin 1 to 2 months ago: Media overexposure, weird drama about Satoshi Nakamoto, the collapse of a large Bitcoin exchange called Mt. Gox, crushingly negative cover

The investor and Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen thinks we'll all look back in 20 years and conclude that Bitcoin was as influential a platform for innovation as the Internet itself was. He says that tech companies think their meetings with President Obama on privacy are a waste

According to the official Bitcoin protocol, the number of BTC (the Bitcoin currency symbol) that can ever be mined into existence is capped at 21 million BTC. That's it. Currently, just under 13 million are in circulation. Because of its finite supply, Bitcoin proponents believe that each BTC can only rise in value - perhaps to as high as $1 million.

Transaction fees could “rise and rise to the point where only rich people can transact” if block sizes aren’t increased, according to Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation

The past several years have seen bitcoin and other cryptocurriences become a multibillion dollar ecosystem, attracting hundreds of startup companies and over $100 million in venture capital investments. Cryptocurrencies are undoubtedtly innovative in the context of payments.

“Bitcoin is the largest software R&D company in the world,” said venture capitalist Chris Dixon Tuesday, arguing that great innovation no longer originates in places like Bell Labs, but instead comes from distributed communities, such as the thousands of engineers around the world

While Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett express doubts about bitcoin, executives running the financial industry's back offices are looking at mimicking the virtual currency's methods of moving money quickly and cheaply. FIS, a provider of systems used by banks to handle payments

Western Union, that stalwart of American Logistics, that company that was so dismissive of Bitcoin, has been granted a patent on a virtual money exchange. They do say that the best gamekeepers are former poachers, so let’s look at the facts. On the first of April (yes, April Fool’s Day) of this year, the US Patent Office granted Western Union a patent on an exchange for “alternative currencies.

People don’t want to buy copies of art, they want the original. And that’s been a huge problem for artists who create digital works that are easily copied. No scarcity means no market, so artists can’t make ends meet. But Monegraph, short for “monetized graphics”, uses cryptography to bring meats

While Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett express doubts about bitcoin, executives running the financial industry’s back offices are looking at mimicking the virtual currency’s methods of moving money quickly and cheaply. FIS, a provider of systems used by banks to handle payments, is examining whether a public ledger like bitcoin’s could help securely move funds on existing networks, Fred Brothers, the firm’s chief innovation officer, said in an interview

Would you listen to her 1 minute explaination of bitcoin? A study released earlier this week shows a positive correlation between knowledge of #bitcoin and positive sentiments towards digital currencies.

The Federal Election Commission on Thursday unanimously said that political committees could legally accept small bitcoin donations — acknowledging for the first time that digital currencies are a form of “money or anything of value.” The commission also affirmed that political committees

One year ago, I tried living on Bitcoin for a week. The tl;dr version: I lost 5 pounds, had to move out of my house, but I survived. Bitcoin was in the $90 to $130 range back then. Since then, Bitcoin has boomed, both in its value — surging to $1100 in November

More and more small businesses throughout the world are finally waking up to the benefits of accepting Bitcoin payments. Zero chargebacks, low (and sometimes no) transaction fees and no transaction reversals are big boons, but they’re only the beginning.

VC interest in Bitcoin, the decentralised digital crypto currency, is undoubtedly riding high right now. A few big names have even made some pretty big bets. But there’s still plenty of confusion and uncertainty around the nascent digital currency. VCs are clearly thinking about making investment