Cryptocurrency | Bitcoin News and Views

Readers may recall an article published on this website not two days ago, in which we embarked on a foray into the world of bitcoin, in order to show how the average investor with little to no knowledge of the cryptocurrency goes about throwing money ... [...]

Paul Solman: Our Bitcoin story on the NewsHour is proving so popular that we've decided to post longer excerpts of our main interviews. Earlier Wednesday, we published our conversation with Bitcoin Education Project's Charles Hoskinson. This one is ... [...]

Stockholm, Sweden's KnCMiner AB, the stratospheric Bitcoin mining start-up that gained huge recognition earlier this week for producing the world's first 28nm Bitcoin miner, and believed to be the world's fastest 28nm concept to silicon ever made, will ... [...]

BTC-e is one of the most well-known cryptocurrency exchanges on the Internet and features in the Bitcoin Price Index. In light of difficulties in withdrawing funds from Mt. Gox, more people are turning to the Bulgaria-based exchange to buy and sell digital coins. We take a look at just what you can do with this exchange.To start with, BTC-e has a good range of trading options. On the fiat side users can trade for US dollars (USD), Russian Roubles (RUR), and Euros (EUR).The range of digital currencies is even larger with: Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Namecoin (NMC), NovaCoin (NVC), Terracoin (TRC), PPCoin (PPC), and Feathercoin (FTC). The allowed trading pairs are shown in the table below:EURRURBTCLTCNMCNVCTRCPPCFTCUSDYESYESYESYESYESNONONONOEURNOYESYESNONONONONORURYESYESNONONONONOBTCYESYESYESYESYESYESThe main page of the site, the trading interface, gives you a candle chart of the selected trading pair.All trading pairs are displayed through HTML buttons, and include the current exchange rate. Each of them updates in real time, and if you watch for long enough youll see a green or red highlight when the rate changes, depending on whether it has increased or decreased.The rates are shown in the format of Buying/'Selling, e.g. BTC/USD=120 would mean a bitcoin is worth 120 USD. Despite this, trading in both directions is possible.An honourable mention goes to the real time chat box shown beside the trading data lovingly known as the troll box. This is a place where regular users inhabit and much sarcasm ensues!From the trading page you can see a recent history of trades for the currently selected trading pair.For each direction, there are fields you may fill to create a buy or sell order. If you accept the price that the forms are automatically filled with, your order will be completed immediately as long as there are sufficient funds on offer at the given price.If you decided to set your own price, youll have t [...]

ATLANTA and STOCKHOLM, Oct. 5, 2013 /CNW/ - Stockholm, Sweden's KnCMiner AB, the stratospheric Bitcoin mining start-up that gained huge recognition earlier this week for producing the world's first 28nm Bitcoin miner, and believed to be the world's... [...]

Cryptocurrency made the leap from being an academic concept to (virtual) reality with the creation of Bitcoin in 2009. While Bitcoin attracted a growing following in subsequent years, it captured significant investor and media attention in April 2013 ... [...]

Bitcoin -- a cryptography based digital currency, or "cryptocurrency" for short -- has had its fair share of ups and downs, but today is the most used digital currency. A Bitcoin trades for around $120 USD at current rates and offers secure, nation ... [...]

US fugitive Edward Snowden's defense fund, launched recently by WikiLeaks to raise money for the legal protection of the NSA leaker, has announced it now accepts donations in virtual currency Bitcoin. The Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fund... [...]

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