| Last week, Reddit announced it would accept the currency for its Gold membership, while a US start-up is taking bitcoins as payment for pizza. |
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| Once miners unearth 21 million coins, that's the total number of bitcoins that could possibly ever exist. |
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| The transaction may take a few days to complete, but you'll receive a notification when the Bitcoins have been safely transferred to your wallet. |
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| As prices go up, people who currently hold Bitcoins develop greater and greater expectations for the currency. |
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| Bitcoins are mined by a decentralized network of computers that guess solutions to a mathematical puzzle. |
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| The police suspect that the other unaccounted for 643,000 bitcoins, were removed from customer accounts via an unknown party. |
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| The site functioned on a hidden area of the Internet, or the Dark Web, and only accepted payment in the form of bitcoins, the often hard-to-trace digital currency. |
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| In about a month, New Hampshirites will be able to convert cash to bitcoins via new bitcoin ATMs popping up in the state. |
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| Flaws in the system became apparent on Feb. 7, when Mt. gox was forced to halt withdrawals of Bitcoins. |
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| Once encrypted, the computer will display a splash screen with a countdown timer and a demand for the payment of two bitcoins in ransom. |
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| Mt. gox suffered a hack in June 2011, when a thief grabbed 2,643 bitcoins. |
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| They buy bitcoins at a lower price then sell them at a higher value. |
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| Each time you succeed in creating a hash, you are rewarded with 25 bitcoins, the block chain is updated and all the users on the network are notified. |
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| And it does seem true that Bitcoins are very hard to forge or duplicate. |
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| A Bitcoin owner can transfer Bitcoins to others to pay for goods or services. |
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| You can also simply encrypt the Bitcoin Private Key file and save it anywhere you desire without risking your Bitcoins. |
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| As well as using the Tor network to anonymise those using the site, all transactions on the website were conducted using the virtual currency Bitcoins which is untraceable. |
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| He cited his mortgage as an example, which is paid for through a Canadian dollar chequing account but only after selling Bitcoins on online exchanges. |
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