Bitcoin won the 2013's Best Currency of the Year
Some good news for you Christmas Bitcoin lovers. Bitcoin just won the award "2013's Best Currency of the Year" by Global Post. This is awesome news and could give us a small boost in the positive direction. Hopefully we will win it next year as well. I personally believe that the year 2014 will be the biggest Cryptocurrency year yet to come. Now let's see :-). Here is an excerpt from Global Post: And the GlobalPost 2013 End of the Year Award for Best Currency goes to: Bitcoin. 2013 was the year that Bitcoin, a virtual currency traded anonymously via peer-to-peer exchanges, emerged from the....
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