Manage Your Digital Investments through CoinFinance

If you’d like to create a cryptocurrency portfolio but aren’t comfortable disclosing personal details or private information when you sign up, check out CoinFinance.

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Bitcoin-ScratchTicket: A Fun and Entertaining Way to Win Bitcoins

One of a kind in the crypto-currency landscape, Bitcoin-ScratchTicket.com offers an exciting yet provably fair game for all BTC aficionados. It stands out from other BTC games of chance such as Dice, Lotteries and traditional Casino games by offering a familiar experience with eye-catching graphics and player defined multilevel rewards.

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Bitcoin security model: trust by computation

A shift from trusting people to trusting math

Bitcoin is a distributed consensus network that maintains a secure and trusted distributed ledger through a process called “proof-of-work.

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The problem with altcoins

Why no altcoin can succeed

New ideas attract not only visionaries and pioneers but also charlatans and fools. The former group understands the nature and potential of the new idea and attempts to extend it in new ways. The latter observes the success of the former and expects similar results through blind imitation and empty hope, rather like the Melanesian cargo cults which arose after World War II when the American military abandoned its airports there.

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Why the exchange rate and public opinion of Bitcoin doesn’t matter

In the short term future, that is...

I’ve had my fair share of conversations about Bitcoin with people who are both for it and against it. Reasons for an individual’s interest in Bitcoin seem to vary widely from an economics or finance background to a political one to fight against a nationalized currency whose fate lies in the hands of a few unelected individuals. It’s great to see Bitcoin bringing people together from such a variety of backgrounds.

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Will Ripple Make a Wave? (Is This the End of Bitcoin?)

Crash!

There. It’s been said. Over the last few days we have seen a significant fall in the price of bitcoin and it will be days to years, or perhaps never, before it recovers.

What is causing the sell-off? Difficult to say. But several facts stand out. Bitcoin in April saw a rise to heights that it was nowhere near ready for based on the fundamentals. It fell quickly back, but what we are seeing now may be just a further settling back to historic trend-levels.

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