Big day for bitcoins!

If you've never heard of bitcoins, they are a decentralized digital currency based on an open-source, peer-to-peer internet protocol. It was introduced by a pseudonymous developer named Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009.

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Today was a big day for bitcoins for two reasons; the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released the US Treasury Guide on Virtual Currencies. But more importantly it's the first day they traded over $50 per $1USD!

Bitcoin trades from the last year

If you want to get started with bitcoins, check out the weusecoins.com Getting Started page.

If you want to practice using it, you can send me a fraction of a bitcoin at my bitcoin wallet address: 1P2qXeETYqf7b9XnkDjdqKmFZsEtuoJty6.