Get 'em, if you dare:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...n-list-n135161
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Get 'em, if you dare:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...n-list-n135161
Didn't someone ask on another thread whether they could buy the Duke Championship ring being auctioned on eBay using Bitcoins?
Well, almost...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/0...core-ipad&_r=0
Braintree, the payments processing company owned by eBay, said Monday that its customers would soon be able to accept Bitcoin, the digital currency popular in some tech and finance circles.
The company, which eBay bought for $800 million in cash one year ago, is considered a more developer-friendly division of PayPal, eBay’s online payments behemoth. Many of Braintree’s clients are tech start-ups like Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit, businesses that are looking for easy ways to integrate payments into their products for a low cost.
USAT article on use:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2...hiny/17669785/
Bank robbery in the Twenty-first Century:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/03/tech...ked/index.html
"Instantly" isn't quite right, but on those whole, yes. People often erroneously describe Bitcoin and certain other cryptocurrencies using blockchains as anonymous, when in reality Bitcoin is perhaps the least anonymous currency in existence - that's fundamental to the mechanics of the blockchain ledger. There is just a layer of separation between wallet and wallet owner that obscures owner identity.
I haven't looked into it in a while but there was at least one service available that could be used for enhancing wallet privacy (and facilitating laundering) by acting as an intermediary between many users, splitting coins in many transactions such that wallets could be identified as part of a large network of transactions but the actual transaction of interest would be obscured.
I don't know about you, but I'm going all in...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-j...or.html?ref=gs
So, apparently, there is this:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurash.../#2bccc20838ba
Seeing as this is the bitcoin collector thread...
I found this column amusing. It is titled: "All this bitcoin stuff is fake"
Quote:
Instead of telling me computer words about what these digital currencies are, tell me this: Is it better than cash? That I hold in my hand? That buys me a burrito? That buys me a basketball? That buys me a house? That buys me a fighter jet? Is it better than that? No it is not. You are engaged in a massive global act of speculation that will inevitably crash and burn and leave people like you gnashing your teeth and rending your garments and searching your soul about why you went out and spent all your real money on fake “coins” that don’t “exist” except in everyone’s “imagination.”
Nice.
Although there are those that say since we've gone off the gold standard, our fiat currency only has value so long as people have faith in it and give it credit.
I just don't see how Bitcoins are given value by vendors, but I guess if enough take 'em then it's a true supply and demand bartering widget.
Bitcoin futures to be traded on Nasdaq in 2018? Some of you bean counters tell me what this really means.
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/nasd...tures-trading/