Let's cut right to the chase: the 17-month-long Bitcoin price drop has not spelled the slow death of the currency. Quite the contrary.
Amanda B. Johnson
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BitPay reveals the (good) reason why bitcoin price is down - News
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Darkcoin is now Dash, and not a moment too soon The last few months have demonstrated that Bitcoin is really, really not anonymous. Take, for example, Aleš Janda's website WalletExplorer. Janda's site claims to accurately identify not only individual addresses, but the entire wallets (composed of hundreds or even thousands of addresses) used by big names like BTCJam, Silk Road and Silk Road 2, Satoshi Dice, BitPay, BitcoinFog, and dozens more.
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Forget price, here’s how Bitcoin really performed in 2014 Some of the folks at BitPay have just released the stats of 2014's Bitcoin performance – the numbers that get less fanfare than the price, but are no less indicative of the currency's prospects.
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