Tag: Digital Currency
Last month, NASCAR- and cryptocurrency-loving Redditors raised $15,000 to fund a Doge-emblazoned race car. Sunday, the first pictures of that car hit the internet. Doge itself gets prominent placement on the car’s hood and rear, of course, but there’s a serious lack of brightly colored Comic Sans. Driver Josh Wise will run the Dogecar at the Aaron’s […]
Yesterday, Overstock.com became the first big online retailer to accept bitcoin as a form of payment, making good on an announcement last month that it would take the digital currency by the end of 2014. The first purchase, apparently, was a $2,700 patio set. Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne says he believes bitcoin will account for just […]
Steps from the New York Stock Exchange, in a storefront plastered with signs, lies a considerably smaller financial institution. This is the New York City Bitcoin Center, a startup company devoted to educating the masses about the ballyhooed cryptocurrency and making some cash while doing it. The center, which opened its doors on January 1st, […]
