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Although this article will reach some of our readers already in 2014, part of the world is still living the last hours of 2013, so Bitcoin Examiner prepared a list of crypto-songs that will make you smile before midnight. 1. “Bitcoin Fever” Let’s start with a classic. This tune will remind you of a couple […]

The “perfect resource”. That’s how the United States Association Football Leagues (US-AFL) decided to describe Bitcoin after announcing it was accepting the world’s most famous cryptocurrency.  The organization, which is “based on the principle of inclusion of all qualifying clubs from a grass roots regional level all the way up to a professional national level”, expects […]

A report prepared by the Ontario-based company Rogers Communications has found out that 61 percent of Canadians expect to convert their current physical wallet into a digital one by 2019.  The document also claims that it has discovered a new demographic group, the Generation D. “This group lives and breathes life through mobile devices and shares […]

I have to say I’m really excited. Made the order using food.co.il , paid with Bitcoin (backed by bits of gold ). Hope more restaurants will join. submitted by ulituan

I’m trying to send 0.1 BTC using Electrum but it says: This transaction requires a higher fee, or it will not be propagated by the network. Can anyone tell me why it requires a fee? submitted by omgomgbtc link 5 comments

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according to the white paper he doesnt seem to dislike the current system of “financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments” all that much. he even says “the system works well enough for most transactions”, but the main drawbacks are that completely non-reversible transactions are impossible which creates high processing costs for a trusted third party to mediate transactions. This means there is no mechanism for non-reversible payments for non-reversible services and a certain percentage of fraud is unavoidable. his arguments against trusted third parties are…