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The NBA's Sacramento Kings will be the first major professional sports franchise to accept bitcoins. If one NBA team is doing it, others are likely to follow. If the NBA accepts it, why not other...
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New research may undermine Bitcoin's efforts to be treated as a viable means of exchange for products and services. Is the use of Bitcoin as a currency as risky as many forms of gambling?
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Wikimedia CommonsIs Bitcoin shortable yet? That is the question I have heard from several financial professionals over the last month or so. Now comes yet another crushing blow for Bitcoin, and it...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe craze around Bitcoin has been monumental. This will either become a great alternative currency, or it will become one of the most obvious bubbles (after the fact, of course) in...
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courtesy of BaiduBaidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is likely one of the key reasons that Bitcoin has been able to rise handily and gain more adoption. After all, when the largest search engine site in China...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe phenomenal move in Bitcoin has been monumental, but a serious dose of reality is now hitting the virtual currency. Having risen from less than $100 to more than $1,200 made...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe craze behind Bitcoin has been monumental. Some might even call it silly. In some ways, Bitcoin is acting just like gold did, but on steroids. Investors and speculators wanting an...
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ThinkstockThe European Central Bank (ECB) is considering even more easing than the official rate cut we saw recently. Now there is talk that easing could be taken as far as creating negative rates....
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Wikimedia CommonsThe mystery behind Bitcoin is getting even more mysterious. The virtual currency keeps hitting new highs each day, and this is coming ahead of congressional hearings and regulatory...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe world of Bitcoin and virtual currencies is a strange one. Imagine an open source currency with a digital life and no real nation behind it. Then imagine that the price of the...
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ThinkstockFive top European Union officials responsible for economic policy recently said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Our response to the crisis, which is based on an integrated approach by...
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Wikimedia CommonsYou have certainly heard of the craze and hype behind Bitcoin by now. Perhaps you have even heard of the efforts to “game” Bitcoin and to further push the adoption of Bitcoin....
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ThinkstockIndia has been in trouble, it currency and financial markets have been roiled and its inflation is among the worst we have measured. It seems as though that all times of trouble have a...
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ThinkstockIndia is slowly, or rapidly, becoming a complete financial disaster. Growth has slowed and the nation is trying to do what it can to fight inflation while still trying to juice up the...
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ThinkstockIndia is supposed to be one of the great BRIC emerging market nations that offers massive growth and opportunity for investors. Some 1.2 billion people live in India, and its economic...
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