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CoinDesk Real-Time Bitcoin Price Ticker Now Available

CoinDesk has developed a Bitcoin Price Ticker widget that can be embedded into your own website or blog.

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CoinDesk Removes Mt. Gox from Bitcoin Price Index

CoinDesk has removed Mt. Gox from the BPI due to the exchange’s persistent failure to meet the Index’s standards.

CoinDesk drops Mt. Gox from Bitcoin Price Index

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Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?

No one knows who Satoshi Nakamoto really was, but we do know he was the inventor of Bitcoin, ushering in the age of cryptocurrency.

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Liberty Reserve's lesson: Don't take liberties with the law

Whether you use “real” government-backed fiat or a distributed digital currency, what you use it for is subject to laws and regulations of many kinds.

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Bitcoin's biggest impact may not be financial

For all the fuss about Bitcoin, its most important impact might have nothing to do with money at all.

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Is Bitcoin inherently criminal? We asked a criminal...

Talking to people who use bitcoin on Silk Road reveals the site is likely not creating criminals.

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Cash is not the enemy of bitcoin

Cash might not be bitcoin's biggest challenge ... the big battle might come with the launch of closed-source, corporate currencies.

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Why bitcoin needs competitors

Bitcoin's long-term chances of success are better if there are many other alternative, digital currencies, with many businesses investing in them.

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Does bitcoin encourage crime?

A look at why bitcoin no more inherently encourages criminal activity than any other form of currency.

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