Interesting quote from the article:

“After NZ, Canada looks like the most attractive prospect for us. We'd love to set up shop there!”

Apparently Australia has decided to double tax bitcoin with recent ruling.
New Zealand and Canada are apparently bitcoin friendlier.

The country that declares itself a bitcoin business haven, is sitting on a goldmine.

What's this Business Catalog anyway?

As for startups, BTCChina was huge this past year.

Although BFL has scammed horribly I would argue that they have somewhat benefited the community. It has taught potential customers of miners the importance of not paying for preorders when the miners are not going to be shipped immediately (or in the very near future). It has caused miner manufacturers to put more skin in the game and as a result have produced higher quality products.

Money is basically favor vouchers. You do something for someone and they give you some item (gold, seashell, signed piece of paper, etc.) that society agrees gives you the right to call in that favor owed to you, but the cool thing is it doesn't even have to be from the person you did the original favor for.

The way Bitcoin works is instead of actually passing around gold or pieces of paper to record who did what for whom, a globally synchronized accounting ledger records this data in a cryptographically secure way. Since no tokens have to be physically transported, it is global and fast. But since no central authority controls it, it cannot be politically messed with, inflated, confiscated remotely, etc.

It's like gold that weighs nothing, that you can carry in your brain without anyone knowing, and that you can teleport anywhere in the world for a tiny fee or even no fee. You can do this with a few cents or a few million dollars just the same way.

Yes, everyone wants to accept bitcoin, but that's not news. The real question is why me as a user would want to pay with bitcoin? When I pay with credit card, I get 2% cash back. When I pay with bitcoin I have to pay Coinbase 1% fee and I get zero cash back. In addition, I need to make sure the price of bitcoin hasn't moved between the time I bought them on Coinbase till I make the purchase. It's just a complete no-brainer that I should use my credit card whenever I can, instead of bitcoin.
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nd just to clarify, the businesses are not really accepting bitcoins, they are only accepting them temporarily so they can immediately convert 100% into dollars.