Interest among entrepreneurs and startups in Bitcoin, the mathematically-based digital currency, is steadily growing.
As a digital currency, bitcoins are not issued by a central bank or national mint.
The first difference you realize is that gaming is conducted only in the digital currency bitcoin.
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The site acts as a marketplace for hundreds of millions of micro-payments using its digital currency, Moola.
Although bitcoins can be used to buy and sell, the digital currency is not minted by a nation.
Yet many are pointing out the anonymous nature of this upstart digital currency.
Coinbase - The company is trying to make the digital currency Bitcoin mainstream, by offering a digital wallet.
Bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency, has become an increasingly popular form of payment since its inception nearly four years ago.
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Starting today, premium users of the IAC-owned dating service can pay for their subscriptions with the untraceable peer-to-peer digital currency.
E-gold is a privately issued digital currency backed by real gold and silver stored in banks in Europe and Dubai.
Liberty Reserve - a Costa Rican-based digital currency service - has been shut down after the reported arrest of its founder.
In addition to subscription fees, players will be offered the ability to pay real life cash for digital currency and items.
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Since the creation of the bitcoin network in early 2009, bitcoins have grown to become a very widely used digital currency.
Owners of bitcoins have also become the target of cyber thieves keen to cash in on the boom in the digital currency.
Officials recently warned that digital currency exchanges should follow traditional anti-money-laundering rules.
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Mr Varoufakis cites the eurozone crisis as being an example of when a digital currency might be preferable to more established options.
It sure would be nice if the world had a decentralized peer-to-peer digital currency that could be transferred to mobile devices in a secure fashion.
Scammers need identification for more than getting access to digital currency.
According to Bitcoin-Central, it's the first exchange of the digital currency to be licensed to operate as a bank and function within the framework of European regulations.
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"Visa is working to bring the security and convenience of digital currency to mobile users around the world, " said Dave Wentker, Head of Mobile Contactless Payments at Visa Inc.
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That fund transfer outfit, dedicated solely to the digital currency, has partnered with an undisclosed international bank to launch a branded debit card within six to eight weeks.
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Big data has become the digital currency in how goods are being bought and sold online, and this vision has provided engineers extraordinary new learning opportunities, not to mention huge data challenges.
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Bitcoin, without an intermediary, already solves P2P marketplace payment issues with a decentralized P2P digital currency that is both fair to buyers with optional anonymity and fair to sellers with finality of payment.
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And for those who wish to avoid both inflation and deflation, what about a digital currency programmed to maintain stable prices, avoiding mischief by central bankers as well as the possibility of deflation?
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Bitcoin is an open-source, peer-to-peer, digital currency software.
Although some are charging subscription fees to players of online games or selling advertising, many of them make most of their money by managing an online economy, complete with virtual goods and a digital currency.
The digital currency exchange operated by Dominica-based Aurum Capital Holdings, Inc. supports bitcoin as well as Liberty Reserve, Pecunix, Perfect Money, and c-gold and they offer two choices for cashing out into a card-based product.
Money was never intended to act as a form of identity tracking or payments restriction and this is why the option for anonymous and untraceable transactions is so vital as society moves to a world of digital currency.
Just imagine if this extraordinary flood of software development talent could be deployed in the decentralized digital currency space where it would lead to reduced transactional friction, shorter clearing times, massively lower processing fees, optional buyer anonymity, and finality of merchant payment.
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