\[News\] Are digital currencies the future of money?
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Couple of interesting article at Physorg.
Are digital currencies the future of money?
We all know how to make money: get a job, make things and sell them, maybe play the stock markets. But what about creating a whole new kind of money?
This is just what the digital cash known as bitcoin has done. Bitcoinâ€"the U.S. Treasury calls it a "decentralized virtual currency"â€"can be used to buy products and services.
http://phys.org/news/2014-07-digital-currencies-future-money.html
Venture capitalist wins US bitcoin auction
A California venture capitalist announced Wednesday he won the US government auction of bitcoins, and plans to use them to help emerging economies that are “hamstrung by weak currencies.”
http://phys.org/news/2014-07-venture-capitalist-bitcoin-auction.html#nRlv
