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Northwest's cheap power drawing bitcoin miners

HashPlex is one of several bitcoin-mining companies operating or preparing to launch in Grant, Chelan and Douglas counties, which offer very low power rates to industrial customers.

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Tom Banse / NW News Network

MegaBigPower CEO Dave Carlson inside what he believes is the biggest bitcoin-mining business in the United...

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Date: 2014-05-11 19:14:02

Bitcoin’s use of blockchain points the way to major ...

While the bitcoin market relies on blockchain to transmit and store the value of each token, the transparent tracking technology might have even greater potential in tracking food and energy transactions.

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Luzi Ann Javier

Bloomberg News

Blockchain is upending the world's financial markets with the rise of bitcoin, and now the digital-ledger system is poised to do the same next year...

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Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency used to buy home in Tukwila ...

The real-estate brokers on both sides of the sale and the mortgage-loan officer had never dealt with a bitcoin or cryptocurrency transaction before and were initially skeptical and confused.

"(Kuo) said 'cryptocurrency' and it was just, whoosh, right over my head," said Nelya Calev of John L. Scott, who represented Kuo. "A lot of it was so foreign, I'd pop up awake at 2 in the morning and go,...

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Bitcoin leaves skeptics behind as it blasts to record ...

Bitcoin surpassed $10,000 for the first time this week, bringing this year's price surge to more than 10-fold and triggering warnings about a bubble.

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Todd White

Bloomberg News

Bitcoin surpassed $10,000 for the first time this week, bringing this year's price surge to more than 10-fold even as warnings multiply that the largest digital currency is an asset bubble.

The...

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