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How Bitcoin Empowers Global Peer-to-Peer Lender BTCJam

The startup uses bitcoin to shift value around the globe, allowing anyone to borrow via its platform.

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International Federation of Accountants: Bitcoin Could Reshape Financial Ethics

The head of the International Federation of Accountants has said that bitcoin could revolutionize corporate finance ethics.

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Why Bitcoin Businesses Struggle to Get Insurance

The need for insured cryptocurrency services is obvious, but companies have been loath to touch bitcoin.

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How Cryptocurrency Mining Could Help Archive Society's Important Data

The vast amounts of computing power going into mining bitcoin could be used for other purposes too, say researchers.

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How Bitcoin Tech Could Make Infamous Anonymous Tor Network More Powerful

A proposed altcoin called torcoin aims to strengthen the Tor network by incentivizing relay creation.

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How to Succeed With Your Bitcoin Startup

If you build it, will they come? Here's how to stay on the path to bitcoin startup success.

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Nine of the Best Cryptocurrency Tattoos

CoinDesk takes a look into the emerging world of crypto ink and finds nine of the best.

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If Digital Currencies Were Popular Technology Companies ...

If bitcoin is the Google of digital currencies, then which altcoin would be Apple?

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Will Bitcoin Mean New Subscribers for DISH?

If anything, the news that satellite operator DISH Network will accept bitcoin is positive publicity for the virtual currency.

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Maturing Middle Eastern Bitcoin Ecosystem Emerges at ArabNet Conference

Bitcoin could solve key issues in the region's financial system and bring resources to the underbanked.

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