With electricity costing so much and being the actual force that creates bitcoin through mining why not write to your electricity supplier and suggest they accept bitcoin as payment.
Any supplier who decided to accept bitcoin would no doubt garner many new customers, especially miners as they would be able to bypass exchanges with their earnings.

This new ransomware is not good news for Bitcoin as it specifically asks for payment in Btc via Tor browser which could obviously give people the impression that Bitcoin is linked to criminals.

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/earthlink_writeup.jsp?docid=2014-032622-1552-99

"Dorian S. Nakamoto hires lawyer to 'clear his name' of bitcoin claim"

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-dorian-s-nakamoto-hires-lawyer-to-clear-his-name-of-bitcoin-claim-20140316,0,41210.story

Looks like those bitcoin donations from the community are going into a lawyers pocket unless he manages to get compensation from Newsweek.
In the article he states

"My prospects for gainful employment has been harmed because of Newsweek's article."

I would have thought just the opposite, he's more chance of getting work because of the publicity, anyway good luck to the old guy, I like him.

A guy has opened a physical (paper) bitcoin shop in London, let's hope it is a success and we see more like it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2562854/Bitcoin-Its-not-just-online-Britains-physical-shop-virtual-currency-bought-opens-London.html

Just read this on Zerohedge. JPM have filed patents for it's own cryptocurrency.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-10/chasing-bitcoin-jpm-preparing-unveil-its-own-electronic-currency

Now this guy is talking scary shit but even more scary, will governments think it's maybe a good idea.

"There's An Electronic Currency That Could Save The Economy — And It's Not Bitcoin"

"University of Michigan economist Miles Kimball has developed a theoretical solution  to this problem in the form of an electronic currency that would allow the Fed to bring nominal rates below zero to combat recessions. He's been presenting his plan to different economists and central bankers around the world."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-electronic-currency-could-save-121228399.html

More great news for Bitcoin.

Cyprus University world first to accept bitcoins for tuition.

http://rt.com/business/bitcoin-nicosia-university-tuition-060/

The University's home page confirms.

including associated institutions

"Bitcoin will be accepted throughout the whole University of Nicosia system, including affiliated institutions such as:

St. George’s University of London/UNic Medical School, a partnership between St. George’s University of London and UNic
UNic Online Degree Divisions, offering online programs to students worldwide
Intercollege, vocational colleges in Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca
Globaltraining, professional training division offering courses in Cyprus, Greece and Romania
Erasmus and Global Semesters programs"

http://www.unic.ac.cy/about-us/university-of-nicosia-digital-currency-initiative/bitcoin-payments

17ft Showmans catering trailer and X Reg. diesel LWB semi high Transit van, tested till April 2014. The trailer has large LPG fired griddle, 4 ring gas hob, hot and cold bain-maries, burco boiler,, large potato/pie/pizza oven, electric chip fryer, microwave, glass fronted fridge and cash register plus Honda petrol generator.

I have this advertised for £8000 but will accept £6,500 in Bitcoins at going Mt. Gox rate.

Send me PM for details.

Having just logged on I see a topic headed

 "How is DPR securing his wallets from the Feds?"

Now I don't know about the rest of you but I don't spend 24 hours a day reading about bitcoin related news and forums and so before I could make any sense of the thread I had to google DPR + "silk road" to find out, the new silk road (SR) owner
 "is fashioning himself as the "Dread Pirate Roberts," a reference to the book and film The Princess Bride, which the owner of the original Silk Road also used."
http://mashable.com/2013/11/06/silk-road-dread-pirate-roberts/ (top google result).

Please spare a thought for new forum users and users like myself who only visit every couple of days by giving us a clue as what the initials mean eg Bitcoin Foundation (BF) as i did earlier (SR) somewhere in the beginning of posts.

It gives us idiots more time to read and digest posts.

Old/damaged/faded photos restored, good rates for BTC.
Samples here
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=d362b33347af7aa7#cid=D362B33347AF7AA7&id=D362B33347AF7AA7%21131

Can anybody post a link to bitcoins explained visually by diagrams or video, especially the concept of mining please.