Great, another brick-and-mortar store that accepts them. Though it's another Subway, all part of Subway's master plan to circumvent the current financial institution's distaste for sub-par sandwiches.

Nothing interesting in the article, seemed accurate until this sentence towards the end:


Hate to nitpick but the title has a typo.

While it may seem poetic and pretty awesome all around, saying that the internet can reconfigure itself in the face of disruption is a bit of an overstatement, states can and have many times blocked full access to the internet, though small amounts of information have always gotten through in other ways.

I would argue that the biggest threat to Bitcoin adoption is by far the power of the state.

Yeah it took me a second to realize that but it is indeed a strong message.

"Wait... this is the actual ASRock hardware company, making a motherboard specifically for Bitcoin mining? That's pretty groundbreaking."

Link:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-14/meet-new-york-superintendant-who-cant-wait-regulate-bitcoin

Why is the "president and chief executive officer at The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children" going to be present?


        Bitcoin is evil and promotes to slave trading!!! We must outlaw them to save the children!!!

Yes a new Japanese market for Bitcoin would be a very welcome push, I'm surprised it has not gained much traction there. Does anyone have good knowledge of the currency situation over there? Is the Yen as productive and boring as the USD?

http://www.coindesk.com/4-1m-goes-missing-chinese-bitcoin-trading-platform-gbl-vanishes/

Picked up quickly from Coindesk by many other sites.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-exchange-gbl-holding-41-billion-vanishes-2013-11

http://pandodaily.com/2013/11/11/fraud-at-this-chinese-bitcoin-exchange-cost-clients-4-1m-but-the-broader-market-barely-noticed/

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/521557/20131112/chinese-bitcoin-exchange-gbl-vanishes-takes-coins.htm

Link?

You overestimate how advanced my method of solving puzzles is, except for the edge pieces, everyone knows you do those first.

Haha, yes the above picture is obviously a mock up of how one of these intangible bitcoins would appear to our feeble human sensory systems,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/06/people-have-bought-or-sold-100000-in-bitcoins-from-a-vancouver-atm-firm-says/

Not much news here, the article is almost like a stub.

Yeah I literally cracked up laughing at that. Somewhere out there in the infinite multiverse there is a universe that has collapsed in on itself due to the inanity of that statement.

Pretty sure these guys will keep spewing the fact that Bitcoin is "nothing more than a bubble" til the end of their days. Though the attacks might become more varied and targeted, "What is Bitcoin secured by? Only number and computational theory! Yeah just theories!"

http://readwrite.com/2013/11/06/why-small-businesses-have-the-most-to-gain-from-bitcoin

Informed and level-headed article, overall tone is positive, just more of the same details regarding small businesses.

Initially found on Flipboard, a mobile news feed app.

Perhaps we can use this to further enhance Bitcoins appearance.

I was contemplating on the idea of splitting the press hits board into two boards and was wondering if anyone else had the same opinion or enlightenment on the idea.

The idea being to split Press board into two, both still serve the same purpose but list the press hits from two distinct(mostly) sources. One would list press hits generated by sources that are distinctly interested in the Bitcoin or cryptocurrency communities in general, such as CoinDesk. I loosely refer to these sources as internal, to the Bitcoin community. While the other would list notable press hits by the general media, external sources.

Inidividual sub-boards may not be the best way to separate these types of sources, though I think some distinction would be very helpful. I am in no position to make any changes to the forum but am merely proposing the idea. What do you guys think?

http://www.indystar.com/article/20130630/BUSINESS/306300014/Bitcoin-gains-believers-despite-risk-digital-currency-could-bust

This article was given the front page of the business section on June 30. Seems well written and informative, aside from claims of anonymity.

I believe it's already been establish that this is not an actual quantum computer.
I also remember hearing somewhere that the main reason for this is that its 512 qubits are not entangled with each-other or something. Having 512 individual qubits does not allow for quantum algorithms to be executed.

Does the client still include a hardcoded hash of block number X or so?
Could we keep increasing X so that only the blocks from the previous year or two need to be verified?

Sure seems to throw out some encouraging numbers. What exactly is "Store of Value", the idea that it 5% of the population use it then that 5% store that much of their wealth in BTC?