Hold on to Your Bitcoins: Why April 8th 2014 Might be a Defining Moment in Bitcoin History

Mark your calendars for April 8. It’s been a target day of dread for thousands of companies’ IT departments counting down the days before they cross the “finished” line. There are currently armies of IT folks throughout the world in a race to upgrade Microsoft Windows XP operating...

What is Bitcoin? How does it work?

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency introduced as open source software in 2009. It is a cryptocurrency, so-called because it uses cryptography to control the creation and transfer of [5] Conventionally, the capitalized word "Bitcoin" refers to the technology...

A BETTER WAY TO BUY BITCOIN?

When Zach and Josh Harvey opened a guitar store in Tel Aviv, in 2006, they only sold instruments made by musicians who viewed the pieces as works of art. To the brothers, who were twenty-six and thirty-two at the time, the idea of plugging in a mass-produced electric guitar wasn’t...