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* [http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-exchange-gbl-holding-41-billion-vanishes-2013-11 A Bitcoin Exchange Holding $4.1 Million For 1,000 Customers Has Simply Vanished] | * [http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-exchange-gbl-holding-41-billion-vanishes-2013-11 A Bitcoin Exchange Holding $4.1 Million For 1,000 Customers Has Simply Vanished] | ||
* [http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/sir-richard-branson-s-out-of-this-world-plan-for-bitcoin-190837979.html Sir Richard Branson's Out of This World Plan for Bitcoin] | * [http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/sir-richard-branson-s-out-of-this-world-plan-for-bitcoin-190837979.html Sir Richard Branson's Out of This World Plan for Bitcoin] | ||
| + | * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-25134289 James Howells searches for hard drive with £4m-worth of bitcoins stored] | ||
== Academic papers == | == Academic papers == | ||
Revision as of 05:27, 5 December 2013
Bitcoin is an "alternative currency" that is generated electronically with no central authority, with a loosely-connected set of network nodes engaged in "minting" coins by solving difficult mathematical computations, validating such newly-created "coins", and storing transactions involving them. This is all accomplished algorithmically.
A bitcoin, and its associated transactions, can be represented in various ways, even including actual physical metal coins if you can believe the picture in the Wikipedia article. A binary format is defined in the Bitcoin technical specs, but archived Bitcoin blocks in the "Block Explorer" site are displayed in a JSON-based format (served as text/plain).
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Data format info
Other specs and definitions
Software
Sample files
Current and historical prices
News coverage
- Government Ban On Bitcoin Would Fail Miserably
- Bitcoin ATM
- Bitcoin value reaches new high against US dollar
- Hackers steal over $12,000 in bitcoins
- Bitcoins Seized by DEA
- Bitcoin's vast ovvervaluation seems to be caused by usually-illegal price fixing
- Person gets windfall from Bitcoins he forgot he owned; bought for $24 and sold for around $1 million
- A Bitcoin Exchange Holding $4.1 Million For 1,000 Customers Has Simply Vanished
- Sir Richard Branson's Out of This World Plan for Bitcoin
- James Howells searches for hard drive with £4m-worth of bitcoins stored
Academic papers
- Paper criticizing Bitcoin (and the concept of decentralized currencies)
- Paper showing that selfish mining behavior could end up dominating Bitcoin
Commentary
- My adventure in donating bitcoins to the Internet Archive
- Open source governance in Bitcoin
- Anecdote about the wrong way to promote Bitcoins
- The Bitcoin Network is 0 FLOPS
