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Title: A Fertility Clinic is Accepting Bitcoins And Spawning So-Called ‘Bitcoin Babies’ Post by: Wilikon on June 11, 2013, 09:01:04 PM http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/10112717/First-Bitcoin-baby-is-a-girl-born-last-year.html
The world's first baby "bought" with Bitcoin is a girl born in California who was conceived when a doctor's offer of discounted fertility treatment if parents paid with the digital currency was accepted by an unnamed couple. The parents didn't use Bitcoin themselves but agreed to pay with the online currency in return for a 50 per cent discount, according to their California-based fertility specialist Dr C. Terence Lee. Dr Lee told The Telegraph today the baby, a girl, was born late in 2012, but refused to name the infant without the parents' permission. Referring to a photo released of the "Bitcoin baby", Dr Lee added: "That's actually a girl. Eveybody thinks it's a boy but it's actually a girl." Bitcoin is a virtual currency whereby each bitcoin piece is composed of a specially generated code. The digital coins are usually spent through transactions on the peer-to-peer network or online shops. Bitcoins are not commonly used for offline spending and Dr Lee believes this is the first fertility treatment paid for with the currency. |