Every day seems to bring a new headline about Bitcoin, the digital currency first created in 2008 by the pseudonymous programmer Satoshi Nakamoto. Yesterday’s news that Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, will file for bankruptcy owing to the theft of nearly six percent of the world supply of bitcoins is a reminder that the digital currency is far from ready for primetime.
Why Your Business Might One Day Accept Bitcoin (or Something Like It)
A Bitcoin entrepreneur defends the currency in the wake of Mt. Gox’s collapse.
February 26, 2014
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