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  • Gavin Andresen, a coder in New England, bought 10,000 bitcoins for $50 and created a site called the Bitcoin Faucet, where he gave them away for the hell of it.

    Wired Top Stories jmckeel 2011

  • It was a curious choice for "The Good Wife": an episode built around an obscure digital currency called Bitcoin that many of the show's viewers probably assumed was fictional.

    NYT > Home Page By MIKE HALE 2012

  • "Bitcoin" has a clever approach involving time/hashcodes which could be applied I'd bet.

    The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely 2010

  • Bitcoin is a virtual payments system that allows you to make completely anonymous payments to anyone, anywhere.

    Andrew Reinbach: Computer "Security" Andrew Reinbach 2011

  • Bitcoin is a virtual payments system that allows you to make completely anonymous payments to anyone, anywhere.

    Andrew Reinbach: Computer "Security" Andrew Reinbach 2011

  • Bitcoin is a virtual payments system that allows you to make completely anonymous payments to anyone, anywhere.

    Andrew Reinbach: Computer "Security" Andrew Reinbach 2011

  • Today there are local versions like Ithaca HOUR (Ithaca, N.Y.) and BerkShare (western Massachusetts), and online ones like Facebook Credits and, most recently, the encrypted digital currency Bitcoin.

    Time for Cash to Cash Out? David Wolman 2012

  • Bitcoin is a virtual payments system that allows you to make completely anonymous payments to anyone, anywhere.

    Andrew Reinbach: Computer "Security" Andrew Reinbach 2011

  • MARTIN: I understand that there was a huge heist of Bitcoin currency.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Bitcoin has an exchange business called Mt Gox and somebody actually broke into that and managed to pull out about a half a million dollars in valuable Bitcoins from that.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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  • a unit of online currency, which in 2013, is being traded for actual currency, and accepted by online businesses

    April 6, 2013