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OK Cupid Tells Users They Can Pay With Bitcoin

As a company whose business proposition has gone from kind of weird to utterly commonplace in the space of a few years, OK Cupid has always been comfortable with novelty. Now it's embracing a new technology that strikes a lot of people as too futuristic for comfort: Bitcoin.

 

Bringing Derivatives To Bitcoin Should Help Stabilise The Price

This is something that all financial economists know and something that just about everyone else disagrees with them on. Having derivatives in a market helps to stabilise prices in that market: Some say that the recent rise of more advanced bitcoin-related financial services, including hedge funds, futures, and derivatives markets, could help stabilize the future of Bitcoin. This week, a soon-to-launch New York-based “leveraged forex trading platform” for Bitcoin, called Coinsetter, announced that it had received $500,000 in venture capital.

 

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