Bitcoin Scoops Linux Media Award at CeBIT 2014
Bitcoin has won a Linux award at CeBIT 2014 - Europe's premier tech trade show. The award was handed out at the Linux New Media Awards 2014, where bitcoin was named the 'most innovative open-source project'. The open-minded, open-source community behind Linux has a soft spot for innovation, encryption and apparently privacy. In addition to bitcoin, the audience also decided to hand out further awards to email encryptor GnuPG and the Tor project, along with developers' tool Git. Most innovative of them all. Thousands of Linux enthusiasts and readers of leading Linux publications took part....
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