currency

It's what you buy with BTC, or any other currency, that is the crime.

Then, you need to have your currency recognized.

This dude lives in this town and has $400M of untraceable currency?

When you avoid the regulation, you take the safety of the currency into your own hands.

Pay-as-you-go credit vouchers are a major form of currency.

It's two orders of magnitude more volatile than a legitimate currency pair like the Dollar/Euro.

Isn't this exactly what Bitcoin was created for - to allow unregulated access to currency?

"And then the secret service came and said "Under the constitution only the US Government can make a currency, stop accepting chips or go to jail.

I realized a long time ago that indignation about political issues was for forums what bad currency is in Gresham's law.

".Soon, there will be nothing left but a wasteland and some lawyers arguing over who gets to own half a dead cat while they warm their hands on oil drums full of burning currency.

It is an impressive proof-of-concept for decentralized trust in cryptosystems, but it is hardly a currency.

Perhaps when Bitcoin reaches supply maturity the value will stabilize but for now its value just too unstable to be used as a currency.

Completing a puzzle without reset gets you some form of currency, which can then be spent on customizing your hot air balloon, or on some form on in-game assistance.

It adopted a monetary system that works when the government controls the currency, and adopted it in a situation where governments cannot print money.

Bitcoin: a currency for which capability to buy pizza is noteworthy, required custom programming, comes with a 10% novelty tax, and is incapable of maintaining a single price for 24 hours.

--Jeff Garzik, bitcoin core dev team"In the grown-up world, currency is controlled by governments, the financial industry is regulated, and money cannot be transferred large distances anonymously.

Existing payment systems charge fees of around 2 percent to three percentAs long as consumers are paid in their local currency and vendors pay their employees, their taxes, and their other costs in local currency, then bitcoin as a payment technology has similar costs as credit cards.