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Title: 2012-11-18 mining.com - A digital currency alternative breaks through
Post by: julz on November 18, 2012, 09:36:12 PM
Old-skool miners get a brief intro to Bitcoin

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A digital currency alternative breaks through

Michael Allan McCrae
2012-11-18

http://www.mining.com/a-digital-currency-alternative-breaks-through-66382/

While some are harkening to gold as a hedge against the breakdown of banknotes, another currency alternative, Bitcoin, just received a big leg up this week when a major software vendor started accepting payment using decentralized digital coins.

WordPress.com, the company that leads development of the world's most popular blogging system on the internet, announced on Thursday that it is now accepting payments with Bitcoins, probably the largest company to do so.
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Title: Re: 2012-11-18 mining.com - A digital currency alternative breaks through
Post by: Akka on November 18, 2012, 09:50:05 PM
Nice one,

strange that on mining.com they don't even mention that Bitcoins are mined, too  ;D


Title: Re: 2012-11-18 mining.com - A digital currency alternative breaks through
Post by: klaus on November 18, 2012, 10:01:26 PM
Old-skool miners get a brief intro to Bitcoin

Hahaha. 'Old-skool miners' - great !


Title: Re: 2012-11-18 mining.com - A digital currency alternative breaks through
Post by: Akka on November 18, 2012, 10:08:57 PM
Couldn't help myself and update their navigation bar:

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3096/minings.png


Title: Re: 2012-11-18 mining.com - A digital currency alternative breaks through
Post by: herzmeister on November 18, 2012, 10:46:59 PM
they already had an article a while back about ol' krugman:

http://www.mining.com/bitcoin-proves-once-again-the-underlying-problem-with-gold-krugman/


Title: Re: 2012-11-18 mining.com - A digital currency alternative breaks through
Post by: matonis on November 19, 2012, 06:12:24 PM
Thanks julz!
You have a great media scraper.