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Economics of bitcoin - Wikipedia

Bitcoin is a digital asset [1] [2] designed by its inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto , to work as a currency. [3] [4] It is commonly referred to with terms like: digital currency, [5] :1 digital cash , [6] virtual currency , [7] electronic currency , [8] digital gold, [9] or cryptocurrency. [10]

The question whether bitcoin is a currency or not is still disputed. [10] Bitcoins have three useful...

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Date: 2017-12-17 11:47:20

Bitcoin network - Wikipedia

This method is effective because bitcoin transactions are irreversible. [57] :57

One virus , spread through the Pony botnet , was reported in February 2014 to have stolen up to $220,000 in cryptocurrencies including bitcoins from 85 wallets. [58] Security company Trustwave , which tracked the malware, reports that its latest version was able to steal 30 types of digital currency. [59]

A type of...

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Date: 2017-12-19 08:52:49

Virtual currency - Wikipedia

Definitions[ edit ]

In 2012, the European Central Bank defined virtual currency as "a type of unregulated, digital money, which is issued and usually controlled by its developers, and used and accepted among the members of a specific virtual community". [1] :13

In 2013, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the US Treasury , in contrast to its regulations defining currency as...

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Date: 2017-12-27 15:01:38

Virtual currency - Wikipedia

Definitions[ edit ]

In 2012, the European Central Bank defined virtual currency as "a type of unregulated, digital money, which is issued and usually controlled by its developers, and used and accepted among the members of a specific virtual community". [1] :13

In 2013, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the US Treasury , in contrast to its regulations defining currency as...

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Date: 2017-12-20 01:25:46

Bitcoin Cash - Wikipedia

On July 20, 2017 Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 91, aka Segregated Witness , activated. [5] [6] [7]

Some members of the Bitcoin community felt that adopting BIP 91 without increasing the block-size limit would simply delay confronting the Bitcoin scalability problem and that it favored people who wanted to treat Bitcoin as a digital investment rather than as a transactional currency. [8]...

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Date: 2017-12-19 17:03:32

Coinbase - Wikipedia

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History

Coinbase was founded in July 2011 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. [7] [14] It enrolled in the Summer 2012 Y Combinator startup incubator program. In October 2012, the company launched the services to buy and sell bitcoin through bank transfers. [15]

In May 2013, the company received a US$5 million Series A investment led by Fred Wilson from the venture capital firm Union...

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Date: 2017-12-19 15:49:04

Coinbase - Wikipedia

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History

Coinbase was founded in July 2011 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. [7] [14] It enrolled in the Summer 2012 Y Combinator startup incubator program. In October 2012, the company launched the services to buy and sell bitcoin through bank transfers. [15]

In May 2013, the company received a US$5 million Series A investment led by Fred Wilson from the venture capital firm Union...

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Date: 2017-12-19 17:30:39

CoinDesk - Wikipedia

History[ edit ]

CoinDesk began publishing in May 2013, and was founded by serial entrepreneur Shakil Khan. [1] Khan is also an investor in BitPay , [2] a bitcoin payment processor. In September 2013, Jon Matonis, former executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation , joined CoinDesk as a contributing editor. [3] CoinDesk also provides guides to bitcoin for those new to digital currencies. [4] In...

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Date: 2017-12-17 22:20:15

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Talk:E-commerce payment system - Wikipedia

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BitPay section[ edit ]

Hi AndyTheGrump, I'd like to address the revert you made on my section about BitPay which you said contained blatant advertising. At least a mention of a Bitcoin E-commerce payment system in this page is fair enough as Bitcoin is relatively new and not everyone knows how to accept bitcoins....

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Date: 2017-12-05 06:30:02

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Digital Currency Group - Wikipedia

Digital Currency Group was launched in 2015 by Barry E. Silbert , who previously founded SecondMarket, Inc. . He began investing in bitcoin companies in 2013, first as an angel investor , and provided funding for many of the earliest companies including Coinbase , BitPay , and Ripple .

Digital Currency Group was formed when two businesses built under the SecondMarket parent company - Genesis Global Trading, a bitcoin OTC trading firm, and Grayscale Investments, a digital currency asset management firm that manages the publicly traded Bitcoin...

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Date: 2017-12-14 14:47:42

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Exchange - Wikipedia

Exchange rate (a.k.a. foreign exchange rate), the price for which one currency is exchanged for another

Bureau de change , a business whose customers exchange one currency for another

Digital currency exchangers (a.k.a. DCEs or Bitcoin exchanges), businesses that allow customers to trade digital currencies for other assets, such as conventional fiat money, or different digital currencies

Foreign exchange company , a broker that offers currency...

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Date: 2017-12-14 12:50:35

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History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

Bitcoin value history (comparison to US$) Date USD...

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Date: 2017-12-30 05:07:26

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History of bitcoin - Wikipedia

Bitcoin value history (comparison to US$) Date USD : 1...

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Date: 2017-12-18 13:55:02

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Cryptocurrency wallet - Wikipedia

An Ethereum wallet on an iPhone.

They come in different forms like:

An ( cross-platform ) application installed locally on a computer, telephone or tablet (see the picture).

When using a webwallet the private keys are managed by a trusted third party. Some web based wallet providers use two-factor (like Google Authenticator ) for extra security. In that case a keylogger is not enough for a hacker...

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Date: 2017-12-19 22:27:41

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List of bitcoin companies - Wikipedia

This is a list of Wikipedia articles on for-profit companies with notable commercial activities related to bitcoins and Cryptocurrency . Common services are wallet providers , bitcoin exchanges , payment service providers [1] and venture capital . Other...

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Date: 2017-12-11 22:14:17

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Mining pool - Wikipedia

is amount of his own shares, and

N

{\displaystyle N}

is amount of all shares in this round. In other words, all shares are equal, but its cost is calculated only in the end of a round.

Bitcoin Pooled mining[ edit ]

Bitcoin Pooled mining (BPM), also known as "slush's system", due to its first use on a pool called "slush's pool', uses a system where older shares from the beginning of a block...

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Date: 2017-12-17 22:20:15

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Mining pool - Wikipedia

is amount of his own shares, and

N

{\displaystyle N}

is amount of all shares in this round. In other words, all shares are equal, but its cost is calculated only in the end of a round.

Bitcoin Pooled mining[ edit ]

Bitcoin Pooled mining (BPM), also known as "slush's system", due to its first use on a pool called "slush's pool', uses a system where older shares from the beginning of a block...

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Date: 2017-12-17 22:20:15

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E-commerce payment system - Wikipedia

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Methods of online payment[ edit ]

Credit cards constitute a popular method of online payment but can be expensive for the merchant to accept because of transaction fees primarily. Debit cards constitute an excellent alternative with similar security but usually much cheaper charges. Besides card-based payments, alternative payment methods have emerged and sometimes even claimed...

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Date: 2017-12-14 18:07:13

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Bitcoin faucet - Wikipedia

Operation[ edit ]

Rewards are dispensed at various predetermined intervals of time, as rewards for completing simple tasks such as captcha completion and as prizes from simple games like the bitcoin fidget spinner [2] . Faucets usually give fractions of a bitcoin, but the amount will typically fluctuate according to the value of bitcoin. Typical payout per transaction is less than 1000 satoshi,...

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Date: 2017-12-05 01:40:46

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List of Bitcoin forks - Wikipedia

Coin splits[ edit ]

These are coin splits of the digital currency Bitcoin , created intentionally via hard forks of the blockchain, sharing a transaction history with Bitcoin up to a certain time and date:

Bitcoin Cash (Forked at Block 478559...

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Date: 2017-12-15 15:14:20

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Mark T. Williams - Wikipedia

Career[ edit ]

In 1985, he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Delaware . [3] He became a bank trust officer for Wilmington Trust Company and joined TD Banknorth in 1987. In 1993 he earned a Master of Business Administration from Boston University and joined the Federal Reserve Bank as an examiner in Boston and San Francisco. In 1997 he joined...

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Date: 2017-12-15 02:03:50

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ISO 4217 - Wikipedia

X currencies[ edit ]

In addition to codes for most active national currencies ISO 4217 provides codes for "supranational" currencies, procedural purposes, and several things which are "similar to" currencies:

Codes for the precious metals gold (XAU), silver (XAG), palladium (XPD), and platinum (XPT) are formed by prefixing the element's chemical symbol with the letter "X". These "currency units"...

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Date: 2017-12-19 22:52:51

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Taringa! - Wikipedia

Taringa! Creators[ edit ]

Along with Xapo's Bitcoin wallet, a Silicon Valley company founded by Wenceslao Casares, Taringa! was responsible for carrying out the largest integration of Bitcoins in the world to date. The widespread incorporation of the virtual currency was made possible by its use as payment in Taringa!'s Revenue Share program, called "Taringa! Creators". [6]

Taringa!'s agreement...

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Date: 2017-12-16 01:34:24

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Talk:Bitcoin Cash - Wikipedia

is there a source for McAfee supporting BCH and if that support still exists?

He does not see it ambiguous:

Stop it now. Use your head.

He talks about BTC positively for the long term

When I predicted Bitcoin at $500,000 by the end of 2020, it used a model that predicted $5,000 at the end of 2017. BTC has accelerated much faster than my model assumptions. I now predict Bircoin at $1 million by...

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Date: 2017-12-21 07:50:58

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DigiByte - Wikipedia

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Overview and history[ edit ]

DigiByte was created by programmer and entrepreneur Jared Tate with the goal of creating a fast and secure cryptocurrency that could reach a wider and more decentralised community than Bitcoin. [5] The first Digibyte block was mined on January 10, 2014, and included the headline from USA Today : "Target: Data stolen from up to 110M customers," hashed into...

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Date: 2018-01-11 21:48:05

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Digital currency exchange - Wikipedia

Regulatory issues[ edit ]

In 2004 three Australian -based digital currency exchange businesses voluntarily shut down following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The ASIC viewed the services offered as legally requiring an Australian Financial Services License, which the companies lacked. [10]

In 2006, US-based digital currency exchange business...

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Date: 2018-01-11 14:59:37

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Digital currency exchange - Wikipedia

Regulatory issues[ edit ]

In 2004 three Australian -based digital currency exchange businesses voluntarily shut down following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The ASIC viewed the services offered as legally requiring an Australian Financial Services License, which the companies lacked. [10]

In 2006, US-based digital currency exchange business...

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Date: 2017-12-18 23:31:39

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Cryptocurrency exchange - Wikipedia

In 2004 three Australian -based digital currency exchange businesses voluntarily shut down following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The ASIC viewed the services offered as legally requiring an Australian Financial Services License, which the companies lacked. [10]

In 2006, US-based digital currency exchange business GoldAge Inc. , a New York state...

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Date: 2017-12-18 23:31:39

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Nxt - Wikipedia

History[ edit ]

NXT was created without announcing any ICO ( Initial coin offering ) with total 1,000,000,000 coins amount. On 28 September 2013 Bitcointalk.org member BCNext created a forum thread announcing the proposed launch of Nxt as a second generation cryptocurrency and asking for small bitcoin donations to determine how to distribute the initial stake. On 18 November 2013 fundraising for...

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Date: 2017-12-17 22:20:15

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Cryptocurrency exchange - Wikipedia

Regulatory issues[ edit ]

In 2004 three Australian -based digital currency exchange businesses voluntarily shut down following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The ASIC viewed the services offered as legally requiring an Australian Financial Services License, which the companies lacked. [10]

In 2006, US-based digital currency exchange business...

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Date: 2017-12-18 23:31:39

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Cryptocurrency exchange - Wikipedia

Regulatory issues[ edit ]

In 2004 three Australian -based digital currency exchange businesses voluntarily shut down following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The ASIC viewed the services offered as legally requiring an Australian Financial Services License, which the companies lacked. [10]

In 2006, US-based digital currency exchange business...

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Date: 2017-12-18 23:31:39

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Exchange rate - Wikipedia

Main article: Currency pair

In the foreign exchange market, a currency pair is the quotation of the relative value of a currency unit against the unit of another currency. The quotation EUR/USD 1.3225 means that 1 Euro will buy 1.3225 US dollars. In other words, this is the price of a unit of Euro in US dollars. Here, EUR is called the "Fixed currency", while USD is called the "Variable...

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Date: 2017-12-19 12:04:03

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BTC China - Wikipedia

BTCChina (now BTCC), based in Shanghai , was the world's second largest bitcoin exchange by volume as of October 2014. [1] Founded in June 2011, it was China's first bitcoin exchange, and most of its customers are thought to be Chinese. [2] In November 2013, the company had grown to 20 employees. [2] It announced on 14 September 2017 that it was suspending trading as of 30 September 2017. [3]

History[ edit ]

Company CEO Bobby Lee approached the then two-person company in early 2013, and after investing his own money and...

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Date: 2018-01-11 02:46:13

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Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm - Wikipedia

Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

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In cryptography , the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) offers a variant of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) which uses elliptic curve cryptography .

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Key and signature-size comparison to DSA[ edit ]

As with elliptic-curve cryptography in...

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Date: 2017-12-16 15:04:49

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Bitcoin Foundation - Wikipedia

History[ edit ]

According to its founding documents, the Bitcoin Foundation's original members included Gavin Andresen , Charlie Shrem , Mark Karpeles , Peter Vessenes, Roger Ver , Patrick Murck and Mehul Puri. Current board members are divided into one of three categories: Founding Members, Industry Members, and Individual Members. The board is made up of a combination of elected members of the...

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Date: 2018-01-30 02:43:07

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CryptoNote - Wikipedia

Origins[ edit ]

CryptoNote technology was first described in a whitepaper CryptoNote v 1.0. [7] [ unreliable source ] An updated version has been released under the name CryptoNote v 2.0 [6] [ unreliable source ] later. The Bytecoin cryptocurrency was the first one where the underlying cryptographic protocol has been implemented. CryptoNote was at first developed in Java for faster launch, and...

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Date: 2018-01-29 21:46:49

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Cryptocurrency tumbler - Wikipedia

Background[ edit ]

In traditional financial systems, the equivalent would be moving funds through banks located in countries with strict bank-secrecy laws, such the Cayman Islands , the Bahamas , or Panama . Tumblers take a percentage transaction fee of the total coins mixed to turn a profit, typically 1-3%. [4] Mixing helps protect privacy and can also be used for money laundering by mixing...

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Date: 2018-01-11 21:48:05

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Titcoin - Wikipedia

History[ edit ]

Titcoin was founded by three cryptocurrency advocates from New York City: Edward Mansfield, Richard Allen and a third anonymous individual. [9] The founders developed Titcoin for the adult entertainment industry as a cash alternative payment system for performing anonymous transactions. [10] [11] Titcoin allows consumers of adult entertainment to perform transactions without using any personally identifiable information . [12] [13] Titcoin also benefits adult businesses with zero chargebacks and freedom from dealing with traditional financial institutions. [14] [15]

On...

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Date: 2018-01-11 21:48:05

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WannaCry ransomware attack - Wikipedia

Description[ edit ]

WannaCry is a ransomware cryptoworm , which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency . [a] It is considered a network worm because it also includes a "transport" mechanism to automatically spread itself. This transport code scans for vulnerable systems, then uses the...

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Date: 2018-01-09 07:39:38

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Digital gold currency - Wikipedia

Digital gold currency is a form of representative money as it directly represents gold metal on deposit or in custody. This depends on the issuer. Most issuers have the gold on deposit - i.e., the issuer will redeem the digital currency obligation with physical metal. Just as the exchange rates of national currencies fluctuate against each other, the exchange rates of DGCs fluctuate against national currencies, which is reflected by the price of gold in a particular currency. This creates exchange risk for any account holder, in the same way one would experience...

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Date: 2017-12-22 13:13:26

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Xapo - Wikipedia

Xapo opened its products to the public in March 2014. [2]

Casares said Xapo was founded with the aim of making the bitcoin currency more secure and accessible. [4] The Xapo Wallet operates through a mobile app and online and includes the ability to transfer funds to and from the Xapo Vault. [4] In April 2014, Xapo...

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Date: 2018-01-11 02:46:13

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Gasparilla Bowl - Wikipedia

History[ edit ]

The St. Petersburg Bowl is the third college bowl game to be played in the Tampa Bay area ; both the long-defunct Cigar Bowl and the ongoing Outback Bowl have been held across the bay in Tampa .

On April 30, 2008, the NCAA's Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee approved a to-be-named bowl for Tropicana Field to be played after the 2008 college football season . [4] On...

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Date: 2018-01-11 01:16:32

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Banknote - Wikipedia

Development of the banknote began in the Tang Dynasty during the 7th century, with local issues of paper currency, although true paper money did not appear until the 11th century, during the Song Dynasty . [14] [15] Its roots were in merchant receipts of deposit during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), as merchants and wholesalers desired to avoid the heavy bulk of copper coinage in large commercial...

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Date: 2017-12-13 05:53:42

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Proof-of-work system - Wikipedia

Background[ edit ]

One popular system -- used in bitcoin mining and Hashcash -- uses partial hash inversions to prove that work was done, as a good-will token to send an e-mail . For instance the following header represents about 252 hash computations to send a message to calvin@comics.net on January 19, 2038 :

X-Hashcash: 1:52:380119:calvin@comics.net:::9B760005E92F0DAE

It is verified with a...

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Date: 2018-01-30 02:43:07

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LocalBitcoins - Wikipedia

History[ edit ]

LocalBitcoins was founded in June 2012 by Jeremias Kangas. He implemented an escrow system for the marketplace by the end of 2012. The website started generating revenue by early 2013. [4]

In April 2014, the company announced that it would begin mass-producing low-cost bitcoin ATMs . [8] In the same month, LocalBitcoins suffered from a security breach, when 30 bitcoins (then worth...

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Date: 2017-12-13 03:33:15

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PayPal - Wikipedia

Offices[ edit ]

PayPal Operations Center and main office in Omaha, Nebraska .

PayPal's corporate headquarters are located in the North San Jose Innovation District of San Jose, California , [39] at North First Street campus. [59] The company's operations center is located in Omaha, Nebraska , which opened in 1999. [60] [61] Since July 2007, PayPal has operated across the European Union as a...

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Date: 2017-12-18 01:33:28

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QR code - Wikipedia

Renames the QR Code 2005 symbol to QR Code and adds clarification to some procedures and minor corrections.

At the application layer, there is some variation between most of the implementations. Japan's NTT DoCoMo has established de facto standards for...

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Date: 2017-12-30 07:05:00

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IOTA (technology) - Wikipedia

= 1Pi

= 1,000,000,000,000,000i

Note that this is not to be confused with the binary prefix notation where 1 KiB is 1024 Bytes.

History

2015

IOTA founded by David Sønstebø, Sergey Ivancheglo, Dominik Schiener, and Dr. Serguei Popov. The fixed supply of 2,779,530,283,277,761 Iota were created. As there is no mining, no more Iota will be created. A few months later, IOTA began open beta testing....

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Date: 2018-01-10 03:53:55

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Litecoin - Wikipedia

History[ edit ]

Litecoin was released via an open-source client on GitHub on October 7, 2011 by Charlie Lee, a former Google employee. [4] The Litecoin network went live on October 13, 2011. [5] It was a fork of the Bitcoin Core client, differing primarily by having a decreased block generation time (2.5 minutes), increased maximum number of coins, different hashing algorithm ( scrypt , instead of SHA-256 ), and a slightly modified GUI . [6]

During the month of November 2013, the aggregate value of Litecoin experienced massive growth which included a 100% leap within...

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Date: 2017-12-19 15:50:56

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World currency - Wikipedia

The rise of digital global currencies owned by privately held companies or groups such as Ven [21] suggest that multiple global currencies may offer wider formats for trade as they gain strength and wider acceptance.

Blockchain offers the possibility that a decentralized system that works with little human intervention could eliminate squabbling over who would administer the world central bank....

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Date: 2018-01-11 02:33:37

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