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Bitcoin's Newest Merchant Peter Schiff: Gold Still Better Than BTC

Famed finance personality Peter Schiff's precious metals company now takes bitcoin, but he remains skeptical about digital currencies.

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BitPay Raises $30 Million in Record-Breaking Bitcoin Funding Round

BitPay has raised $30m in new funding from big-name investors including Richard Branson and Index Ventures.

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Bitcoin Trading Platform Vaurum Raises $4 Million in Seed Funding

Investors in the company, which offers financial institutions a way to trade bitcoins, include Tim Draper and Steve Case.

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Fortress CIO Mike Novogratz Explains Why He is Bullish on Bitcoin

The human capital heading into bitcoin gives the Fortress Investment Group CIO confidence in the cryptocurrency, he says.

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VC Fred Wilson: Block Chain Could be Bigger Opportunity than Bitcoin

The Union Square Ventures founder says the bitcoin protocol has bigger potential in key fields like Internet identity.

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Australian VC Company Future Capital Launches $30 Million Bitcoin Fund

The firm says it is Australia’s first dedicated investment fund for the digital currency.

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Bitcoin Startup Incubator Seedcoin Raises 2,000 BTC for Second Funding Round

Seedcoin is encouraging investments in a wider variety of bitcoin startups with its latest funding round.

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State of Bitcoin Q1 2014 Report Shows Venture Capital Soaring

The growing sum of venture capital that has been invested in bitcoin startups is now up to $154m.

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500 Startups Funds Five Bitcoin Startups With $100k Each

Mountain View-based accelerator 500 Startups is funding five bitcoin companies in its latest batch of startups with $100,000.

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BitAngels Closes 10,000 BTC Fund for Decentralised Applications

BitAngels has closed its first official fund, which focuses on investing in decentralised applications.

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