Press

What's being said about Bitcoin by news sites and other media.

Articles / Blog Posts

2011

July

On "unconfirmed sources" there was a satiric article [, USA, en]:
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Quotes

• Unconfirmed sources report that a massive Bitcoin strike in the Amazonian rainforest has destabilized the virtual currency.
  
• "This is an amazing find, "says Amir Taaki, a project developer for Bitcoin.org.
  

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June

• Bits and bob 2011-06-13 The Economist
• The Bitcoin Triples Again 2011-06-10 SmartMoney

May

• What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters 2011-05-24 Technology Review by MIT
• Bit Players, An open source digital currency seeks to gain wider acceptance 2011-05-23 iPad news app The Daily
• My Money Is Cooler Than Yours 2011-05-18 Slate
• L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen 2011-05-15 Launch
• What Is BitCoin? 2011-05-19 Gizmodo.com
• Bitcoin: inside the encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency 2011-06-08 Ars Technica

April

• Crypto Currency 2011-04-20 Forbes Magazine
• Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks 2011-04-16 TIME TechLand

March

• Bitcoin: It's Not Too Late To Send Me Money 2011-03-27 Ironwolf Blog
• Open source identity: Bitcoin technical lead Gavin Andresen 2011-03-21 CIO Australia
• What the Frack is Bitcoin and Can I Use it with Drupal? 2011-03-14 CivicActions
• HTG Explains: What Is Bitcoin, the Virtual Digital Currency? 2011-03-01 HowToGeek.com

Feb

• Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity 2011-02-10 news.Slashdot.org

Jan

• Bitcoin - a Step Toward Censorship-Resistant Digital Currency 2011-01-20 EFF.org

2010

• Interview: How Bitcoin Created a Decentralized Crypto-Currency 2010-12-29 ReadWriteWeb
• Could the Wikileaks Scandal Lead to New Virtual Currency? 2010-12-10 PC World
• Imagine your computer as a wallet full of Bitcoins 2010-11-26 Irish Times
• Bitcoin: Virtual money created by CPU cycles 2010-11 LWN
• Bitcoin Electronic Currency: The Future of Money 2010-09-30 Elliot Wave
• Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 2010-07-11 news.Slashdot.org

Podcasts / Video

• Linux Outlaws 215 - Bitcoins 2011-06-30 (mp3, ogg)
• CBS / What’s Trending - Bitcoin: The Future Of Money 2011-06-08 Shira Lazar interviews Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik.
• The World's First Bitcoin Road Trip 2011-05-30 An interview with The Real Plato on the Corbett Report.
• What Are Bitcoins? 2011-05-24 NPR All Things Considered (mp3)
• TWIST #140 2011-05-10 This Week In Startups interviews Gavin Andresen and Britcoin's Amir Taaki
• Cypherpunkd Episode 005: "Bitcoin Mania" Part 1 - mids 2011-04-06 Podcast interview of mids, from AgoristRadio.com (mp3)
• Bitcoin at EPCA 2011-04-04 Video of Genjix's presentation on Bitcoin at EPCA conference. (followup)
• Andresen on BitCoin and Virtual Currency 2011-04-04 EconTalk's Russell Roberts interview Bitcoin lead Gavin Andresen (mp3, transcript)
• What is Bitcoin? video introduction (mp4)
• Bitcoin – a Digital, Decentralized Currency 2011-03-18 omega tau interviews Bitcoin technical lead Gavin Andresen (podcast)
• Spark 139 2011-02-27 CBC Radio covers Bitcoin. A nice non-technical overview (podcast)
• Security Now 288: Q&A 2011-02-16 Bitcoin coverage is from 0:44:00 to about 1:13 of the podcast (podcast),(video)
• Ignite Amherst 2011-02-15 Presentation by Bitcoin Principal Gavin Andresen (Slides)
• Ignite D.C. 6 2011-02-03 Presentation by Darrell Duane (Slides) About Bitcoin and Potomac local currency
• Security Now 287: BitCoin CryptoCurrency 2011-02-09 Bitcoin coverage is from 0:41:25 to the end of the netcast (video), (podcast)

Presentations

• Bitcoin - P2P Virtual Currency 2011-06-05 Jake Hansen Presentation submission for Defcon 19
• Monetising Game Play on Social Network Sites 2011-03-31 Jon Matonis at KPMG eGaming Summit
• Bitcoin - new P2P currency 2011-02-19 Juraj Bednar

See Also

• Blogs
• Bitcoin News daily posts
• Research