When Leo Dominguez decided to sink his life savings — and a loan from his mother — into his bitcoin venture two years ago, his friends teased he was entering a Ponzi scheme. His father told him he was wasting his time and would lose all his money.
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MONTREAL – Will that be cash, credit card or Bitcoin?
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Forget the regulatory crackdown in China. U.S. businesses are helping the controversial cryptocurrency known as bitcoin to make a price comeback.
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Bitcoin — the frictionless Internet cash making waves worldwide — is gaining popularity among tech-savvy Edmontonians.
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It’s called “Bitcoin” — and it joins “selfie” and “twerk” among this year’s Oxford English Dictionary roster of buzz-worthy phrases.
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Got $1 million in bitcoins burning a hole in your pocket?
If so, Red Deer realtor Bryce Kander has the house for you. He has just listed his former family home on 3.3 acres in Gasoline Alley for a cool $1 million — bitcoins accepted.
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The value of all daily Bitcoin transactions is now just about one-third less than transactions on online pay service giant PayPal.
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Bitcoin investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Lightspeed Ventures partner Jeremy Liew discuss whether bitcoin can become a real currency, or whether it will just remain a speculative tool. Watch an excerpt from a panel on digital currencies from our Ignition conference.
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(Reuters) – The price of the digital currency bitcoin soared above $1,000 for the first time on Wednesday, extending a 400 percent surge in less than a month that some see as a growing bubble in an asset that is still a mystery to many.
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The beautiful thing about Bitcoin, digital currency enthusiasts will tell you, is that it doesn’t have a central bank.
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