Tag: Bitcoin
Can Bitcoin stop game piracy? Could Bitcoin make Free2Play games obsolete?
Piracy has long been the bane of the games industry – but one enterprising pirate may just have figured out how developers could make money from piracy… by using Bitcoin. And could this have implications for how legitimate game developers…
Glasgow branch of CEX to accept BitCoin
A nice promotional wheeze from highstreet second-hand retailer CEX – they've announced that for three days in Glasgow, as an experiment, they'll be accepting the infamous cryptocurrency Bitcoin. That's right – no longer is Bitcoin just for buying drugs or…
Bitcoin users raise $28,000 (almost £20,000) for the guy who isn't the Bitcoin guy
Say what you will about the Bitcoin community, but at least their hearts are in the right place. Sure, some may claim that they're all neckbearded libertarians putting their money into a quasi-legal currency that is backed purely by hype…
Shoppers are aware of Bitcoin… but don't want to use them
A new survey has discovered that (astonishingly) 57% of online shoppers are aware of Bitcoin… yet only 18% may be willing to use them in the future. I know what you're thinking: "I can't believe a currency that isn't backed…
Could this low-tech Bitcoin scam cause the death of the virtual currency?
Bitcoins! Everyone is talking about them, and only a handful of slightly weird "Ron Paul 2012" types are using them – but they could be the next big thing. The "cryptocurrency" has gained increasing attention in recent months as an…
