tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35361542086215070482023-07-19T07:53:33.137+01:00BitcoinBabeWe should all have a bit to play, and more than a bit to say, in the shaping of our worldBitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-62996656324268849492011-08-29T12:18:00.000+01:002011-08-29T12:18:16.902+01:00Bitcoin Now A World Major Currency!Well, according to exchangerates24.com it is. The following is a quote from the front page of the website (the bold is my emphasis):
Exchange Rates for the world's major currencies which are Australian Dollar(AUD), Bitcoin(BTC), Canadian Dollar(CAD), Chinese Yuan Renminbi(CNY), Euro(EUR), British Pound(GBP), Japanese Yen(JPY), US Dollar(USD) against each others are organised in the table BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-21729883971036591132011-08-14T12:24:00.001+01:002011-08-14T12:54:39.386+01:00Bitcoin - Saying It With FlowersFlower power meets the future with this new initiative to promote bitcoin. There are quite a few bitcoin giveaway sites already in existence (some you can find listed under the Bitcoin Goodies section in the panel to your right); some services offer a one-off donation to get you started, some will let you earn bitcoin by filling in online surveys, one will let you play games to win bitcoin, and BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-47947924777552660892011-08-14T11:43:00.004+01:002011-08-14T11:49:05.080+01:00Bitcoin ATMAcquiring and storing them can, for some, seem a daunting prospect and, therefore, the first two hurdles at which the average person will balk at actually dipping their toe in the often rapid ebb and flow that is bitcoin. There are various online exchanges where you can buy and sell bitcoin much like you can any commodity but, if it's really a currency, wouldn't it be easier to just get them the BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-31398005031257348592011-08-04T12:26:00.006+01:002011-08-04T12:34:09.796+01:00Betting on Bitcoin To The Tune of $10,000!I'm obviously enthusiastic about bitcoin and hope it will one day attract from beyond the fold of geek and libertarian folk to widespread use across the globe. With the Euro on shaky ground, and getting shakier every time a Eurozone politician opens their mouth to say their country's economy is doing fine and doesn't need bailing out, thank you very much (Berlusconi being the latest, which means BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-12035987234699281792011-07-29T21:06:00.005+01:002011-07-29T22:18:27.972+01:00A Bitcoin For Your Time – The World's First Ever Bitcoin Luxury WatchHorolotech Watch Company, a specialist company that makes high-grade Swiss Chronographs, has made a limited edition luxury watch that comes with the following specifications:
Water tested to 10 ATM (100 meters/330 feet)
Swiss 25 jewel ETA Valjoux 7750 Automatic Chronograph movement with Perlage & Cote de Geneve finish
“BTC” engraved on the rotor
Non-glare genuine sapphire glass
See-through BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-72782247895985200502011-07-29T19:28:00.003+01:002011-07-30T00:33:43.716+01:00Bitcoin in Berlin - Ich Bin Ein Bitcoiner!Some time last month I wrote about the first brick and morter restaurant that accepts bitcoin, Meze Grill in Manhattan, New York. However, no sooner had I heard about Meze Grill than I started to hear about other places (in the US) that also took bitcoin.
Of course, there are bitcoin users and enthusiasts all across the globe so it stands to reason that there also various brick and morter BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-43733197160477572272011-07-29T16:50:00.001+01:002011-07-29T17:00:43.649+01:00TextCoin - Bitcoin Via SMSIf you've found your way here, chances are you've already looked into ways to acquire bitcoin or are still in the process or researching it. Chances are, also, that you've figured that CPU mining is too taxing for your computer, GPU mining is too expensive, and buying via the various bitcoin exchanges is just too time-consuming and inconvenient. But wait! Don't give up on joining the bitcoin BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-87923149718379703422011-07-11T09:06:00.004+01:002011-07-29T19:29:16.731+01:00Spending, Mining, And Receiving Bitcoin Payments On Your Android Smart PhoneWith new places to shop with bitcoin gradually popping up, both online and in brick and mortar establishments, the bitcoin economy is slowing picking up pace. But, even as the "well you can't use bitcoin to buy regular stuff in a regular store" is being countered, this still leaves most non-geeks wondering how, or if, they can use their bitcoin on the go, much like you can with any fiat BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-75215716258298304602011-07-10T00:50:00.003+01:002011-07-29T19:29:48.903+01:00And Where Do You Go For A Bitcoin Shopping Bargain...?Wow, this is turning out to be quite the retail therapy weekend for bitcoiners. Earlier I mentioned the launch of upscale BitCoin World Market, and now BitCoinz SuperStore!
Based in Canada, BitCoinz SuperStore is reaching out to the masses with its claim to offer a marketplace where users can purchase items at rock bottom prices. And, if it's successful in attracting an audience beyond current BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-42798128419514101752011-07-09T10:49:00.004+01:002011-07-29T19:30:21.873+01:00So Where Do You Go For A Bitcoin Shopping Spree...?No, you don't have to take a dicey trip (no pun intended) to Silk Road. For a vast array of goods, from chocolate, to spices, organic and gourmet foods, beauty treatments, small electronics and gadgets, clothes... you can spend your bitcoins, or US dollars, at the recently launched BitCoin World Market.
BitCoin World Market was founded by Dan McDonley and Jonathan Stack, two San Francisco BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-70045618992449380922011-07-06T07:57:00.002+01:002011-07-06T08:39:45.303+01:00What Is Money? And Who Do You Trust?OK, so maybe you didn't have time to sit through the whole 2 hours or so of "Money As Debt II," the documentary film I posted at the end of last week.
Well, in less than 3 minutes, below is a simple abridged history and projection of money, from gold through to bitcoin, as well as a brief comparison between what has been the trusted store of value for millions of years, gold, and the new BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-55946723920083024772011-07-05T02:16:00.002+01:002011-07-29T19:31:40.041+01:00Bitcoin: Sex, Drugs And... Baklava And Crepes?New York – crazy people, crazy city. Gotta love it though and, if the song is to be believed, if you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere – which bodes well for bitcoin!
If you've only recently come across bitcoin, chances are you've heard that it can only be used for paying for porn and buying illicit drugs.True, bitcoin, much like all major fiat currencies, has been used for both. But, BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-55079573171180125722011-07-02T06:49:00.002+01:002011-07-02T07:15:25.994+01:00Coming Soon: Bitcard - Bitcoins In The Palm of Your Hand!Well, if this doesn't help bitcoin go mainstream, I don't know what will.
Much media and online commentary on bitcoin has painted it to a passing fad, used thus far by computer geeks and perverts. Well, yes, it has been used to buy drugs and pay for porn but, last I heard, so has every major fiat currency out there. A "concern" by some is that it isn't tangible and that most people will not be BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-56454871707798654422011-07-01T08:44:00.004+01:002011-07-01T09:27:48.795+01:00Friday Matinee - "Money As Debt II"I'm obviously an advocate of digital currency and it's my view that a vast amount of vitriol that Bitcoin, possibly the most successful digital currency to date, seems to garner has a lot to do with ignorance and fear: ignorance of history, combined with a refusal to even try to understand the current monetary system beyond the superficial PR crap that gets meted out by Big Finance and mainstreamBitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-53597625775659626422011-06-27T15:28:00.002+01:002011-07-01T09:24:36.621+01:00Buying & Selling BitcoinOK, so if you've read anything else on this site, or you arrived here wondering what all the bitcoin fuss is about and how you can get in on the action, you probably want to know how to buy and sell bitcoin.
Well, below are two instructional videos from Only One TV, home of "The Bitcoin Show." The first video demonstrates how to buy bitcoin, and the second shows how to sell bitcoin - in other BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-71315299420851079282011-06-27T12:08:00.025+01:002011-07-02T06:55:39.084+01:00Bitcoin As An Investment?There is an economy currently worth over $160 million in the form of the new border-less digital currency called BitCoin. Worth less than one US dollar ($1) at the beginning of this year, Bitcoin is now trading at about $17 - i.e, as at the time of writing this (on June 27, 2011) 1BTC is worth about $17.
According to BitcoinMe, a leading source of information on the new currency:
One Bitcoin wasBitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-26194636736687025702011-06-25T11:53:00.000+01:002011-06-26T08:57:08.413+01:00So What Are Bitcoins?BitcoinBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798497671891301289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536154208621507048.post-90068436461837560202011-06-23T11:25:00.001+01:002011-07-02T06:28:59.066+01:00Ever Wished You Could Create Money From Nothing...?Well, you can! How, you ask?
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