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PayPal and Facebook Founding Father Peter Thiel recently held court at the annual “Dinner for Western Civilization” dinner. This gathering was hosted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute at the University Club in New York City. As per usual, Peter Thiel was asked about the prospectus of Bitcoin as a global currency, and how it relates […]

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Robocoin bitcoin ATM operators are split over the company's decision to require all customers to provide personal information.

Black Friday–generally considered the busiest day of the Christmas shopping season–is fast approaching. Bitcoin Discounts has launched “Bitcoin Black Friday” to help bitcoin-friendly merchants advertise their deals to the bitcoin community and customers find stores that plan to offer Black Friday bitcoin deals. Also Read: Half of Small Businesses Not Prepared to Accept Bitcoin Bitcoin […]

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Bitcoin's low price is making things tough for hobbyist miners. Should they ditch the rig and buy bitcoins instead?

This excerpt from Dominic Frisby's book, 'Bitcoin: the Future of Money?', involves the search for bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.

The Federal Reserve's stimulative bond buying program, aka quantitative easing, is over.

This means a number of things for the markets, but among the notable side effects is that now, conventional wisdom says, we are finally facing the real countdown to the Fed’s first interest rate increase.

During the market volatility seen during October, the market's expectations for the Fed's first interest rate hike got pushed out to the third quarter of next year from the second. Implying, basically, that the Fed will raise rates at its September 2015 meeting, not its June 2015 meeting.

But a big market theme over the last few years has been that the Fed will stay "lower for longer" when it does raise rates.

In our latest Most Important Charts in the World feature, Gerard Minack of Minack Advisors notes that the threshold for where interest rates risk pushing the US economy into recession has been falling over the last thirty years. 

"The peak in the real Fed funds rate required to trigger recession has fallen in every cycle since the 1980s," Minack writes.

"This pattern reflects lower trend growth and rising leverage — both of which tend to reduce the 'neutral' policy rate. This pattern will continue, in my view."

And if the "peak" Fed funds rate that the market can tolerate has fallen, the Fed faces quite a pickle, as it might be damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t. 

"The peak in the real Fed funds rate required to trigger recession will likely make a new low. 1% real could cripple growth. Worse, if the peak in rates is so low, it will leave the Fed little room to battle the next downturn."

Though before the Fed faces the task of battling the next recession, it is likely to confront the specter of raising interest rates for the first time.

But does it really have anywhere to take them?

"Lower for longer" indeed.

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The Bitcoin community has been rapidly growing since its creation. What was believed to be just a group of geeks and anarchists has transformed into an extremely diverse and passionate community. I’ve come to realize that much of the bitcoin community is represented by avatars and usernames on the Internet. There is a shortage of physical human representation. For any grassroots movement to acquire legitimacy, people need to see real people. EasyBitz, a payment network powered by crypto-currency, has begun an initiative to film the real faces of the bitcoin community. They need your face. They are compiling videos of a diverse group of bitcoiners speaking about their involvement with it, and making one great documentary out of it. They […]

Did you miss something on the internet this week? No matter who you are, the answer is probably yes. We’re here to help you catch up. Here’s a smattering of excellent posts, both short and long, from the last few days that make for a good weekend read.

A reminder that not all oil is created equal — Izabella Kaminska

Did ending QE hurt the Fed’s credibility? Ryan Avent says yes. Jared Bernstein says maybe.

"This suggests that whatever is happening in the conference room reinforces men’s aspirations while eroding women’s" — Bain & Company

Matt Bruenig rethinks gentrification

Matt Taibbi is back, taking on JPMorgan — Rolling Stone

The Dads of Tech — Astra Taylor and Joanne McNeil

Annals of former Goldman employees: "Lam says his quality of life is much better, now that his coworkers are dogs." — Melissa Cronin

The was a bitcoin Ponzi scheme (are you surprised?) — Matt Levine

Inefficient markets, wedding dress edition — Alyssa Rosenberg

Is learning economics bad for MBAs? — Noah Smith

“47. As the Twitter essay has increased in popularity, there has been a backlash.” — Jeet Heer

Cultural interlude: Why Banksy is probably a woman — Kriston Capps

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American households are saving $42 per month on lower gas prices — Akin Oyedele

10 tiny flats you can buy in London for the same price as these £1 million mansions - Mike Bird

Bill Gross: 'I am a philosophical nomad disguised in western clothing' — Myles Udland

If you can explain what happens when smoke comes off a cigarette, you’ll get a $1 million prize — Andy Kiersz

Former bank CEO says he led a double life as a CIA agent and hunted Osama Bin Laden — Elena Holodny

Here’s what stocks did the last time the GOP took Congress with a sitting Democratic president — Sam Ro

A single number explains why radical leftist politics are here to stay in Spain — Me

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Andrew Barisser, one of my favorite Bitcoin opinion writers, has written a delicious short story set in a dystopian (but sadly plausible) future. It’s the year 2340 and Silk Road 317.0, the infamous drug and thought-crime exchange website, has been shut down by United Earth Federation authorities. The story includes snippets of triumphant press releases […]

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BitCrane debuted with the T-110 water cooled Bitcoin ASIC miner earlier in the summer. The T-110 uses the Golden Nonce chips which BitCrane calls the UltraHoist Module. Each unit has 2 of these chips at a freq of 725 and uses a custom water cooling system to cool them. BitCrane has taken this design to another […]

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The Russian ruble is in serious trouble. A strengthening dollar, falling oil prices and a lethargic economy have conspired to cause the ruble’s latest plunge. On Thursday, the ruble fell by about 4% to exchange at 46.68 to the US dollar. This represents a 14-year low. Cumulatively, the ruble has shed 25% of its value […]

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On Thursday, the FBI arrested 26-year-old Blake Benthall, the alleged operator of the Silk Road 2.0, just over a year after the original Silk Road’s alleged mastermind, Russ Ulbricht, was also arrested in San Francisco. By Friday morning, it became clear that Benthall’s arrest was just one part of a much larger operation called Operation Onymous, a globally-coordinated take-down of more than “410 hidden services,” thanks to the combined efforts of 17 nations. The operation led to 17 arrests and the seizure of $1 million in Bitcoin, 180,000 Euros in cash, drugs, gold and silver.

Less than a mile from my home, as the Web Summit wrapped up in Dublin’s RDS, Gardai (the Irish police) raided an office in the leafy suburbs. Two men were arrested as part of an international operation targeting drug sellers using Tor, and several hundred thousand euro in cash, as well as quantities of of drugs were seized, along with computer equipment. This was part of a broader international operation called “Onymous” between the US and sixteen European countries and Europol, which has shut down Silk Road 2.0 and over 400 other darknet websites. A number of arrests have also taken place, including Blake Benthall, said to be behind Silk Road 2.0. The police raided the operation after three months of surveillance, and caught them red […]