Bitcoin Wins Best Technology Achievement at TechCrunch Awards

Bitcoin Wins Best Technology Achievement at TechCrunch Awards

Bitcoin has won the TechCrunch Best Technology Achievement award at the 2013 Crunchies. The 7th annual award ceremony was held last night in San Francisco and it was put together by TechCrunch, Gigaom and VentureBeat. The fact that TechCrunch readers voted for bitcoin probably caused a problem or two for the organisers. Satoshi Nakamoto was a no-show, so Peter Vessenes, Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, accepted the prize in his place. The award was presented by Gigaom's Tom Krazit and Khosla Venture's Keith Rabois. Here's how TechCrunch explained the conundrum: "Since no one person made....


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