Yeah, that part didn't make any sense to me either.  But even her website has the Cloud Hashing reference. The CloudHashing website just shows....well...cloud hashing.  Nothing about BitPay-like payment services.  Hmm.....

He does, he mentions receiving tips here:

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/12-days-of-bitcoin-getting-your-hands-on-a-bitcoin-7NlUm0STQhy1uKYPK~x0PA.html

"It's a movement"..."There's a community"..."It's fun"..."I'm into it"

Apparently M-PESA started accepting bitcoin directly, not seen any details yet though.

"There are two things affecting bitcoin in China," Linke Yang, co-founder and vice president of BTC China – the world's largest bitcoin exchange by volume – told CNBC on the sidelines of the conference.

"One is that there are a lot of [bitcoin] miners in China," Yang said, referring to those participating in the process of adding transaction records to bitcoin's public ledger and who can earn bitcoins for their efforts.

"The second is that, traditionally, high net-worth individuals and investors first go to the property market to invest and then the stock market, but since the property market is capped and controlled and stocks maybe aren't doing so well that's changing," Yang said. "After we had the China Central Television piece [on bitcoin in March] people here know about bitcoin and are putting their money into it."

From November 7 to 10, 2013, while Bitcoin prices were climbing wildly, Stockholm-based KnCMiner sold out of its newest Bitcoin computer, selling 5,000 units. These computers cost $7.000 a piece (and yes, they take Bitcoin as payment).

At one point, the computers were selling so fast that KnCMiner generated $600,000 in less than five minutes, it said.

Ripple Labs Inc. is expanding the distribution of its digital currency and money-transfer software through an agreement with cash-transaction network ZipZap Inc., signaling the growth of alternative payment methods.
Ripple, a San Francisco-based startup, operates payments software and a digital currency that resides in a consumer’s account known as a Ripple Wallet. Under the agreement, Ripple will let consumers link those Wallets to ZipZap accounts. San Francisco-based ZipZap -- which has payment centers across the U.S. in locations such as CVS Caremark Corp. (CVS) pharmacies and hotels -- can then send a payment that someone makes through their Ripple Wallet to a recipient elsewhere who also has the software.

Ripple issues a virtual currency known as Ripples, of which it holds a 25 percent slice. Each Ripple Wallet has to hold at least 50 Ripples -- which people pay for using currencies from U.S. dollars to Japanese yen to Bitcoins -- to function. The company’s virtual currency and payments software are intended to make it easy for people to exchange money, loyalty points or airline miles for another currency.

The ‘pirates’ behind the Silk Road website are deluded if they think they are standing up for freedom
Look, if I were a multi- millionaire online drug dealer, I’d probably pretend it was all about the politics, too. Of a morning, in the bathroom, I just think it would make it a little easier to look at myself in the mirror.

Barry Silbert, SecondMarket founder & CEO, discusses the launch of its newly-minted Bitcoin Investment Fund, which is a digital currency-focused fund for institutional and "sophisticated" investors.

Mt. Gox is the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, at least as measured by transaction volume. Millions of dollars worth of bitcoins change hands every day on the site.
Yet recently, something peculiar has been happening. Ordinarily, the price of a commodity is roughly the same everywhere it’s traded. But lately that rule hasn’t applied to Bitcoin.

Search for the video: 'United Colors of Bitcoin'.

Leaders of the Bitcoin Foundation, a trade group, are having meetings with US administration officials and on Capitol Hill this week, as the powerful Homeland Security Committee runs an investigation into potential threats from virtual currencies.