Now it wants to fill its coffers with equally untraceable injections of digital cash.
The merchants who treat e-commerce as more than a digital cash register will do the best.
He speculated that the thieves were sitting on their pile of digital cash because the money was still "hot".
Before 2009, truly decentralized digital cash was in the same intellectual category as public key cryptography was in before 1976.
The vast increase in interest in Bitcoins is also creating problems for some established members of the digital cash community.
But until Bitcoin, all digital cash schemes were hobbled by a reliance on an intermediary to handle the double spending problem.
The Pizza for Coins service has been set up by two programmers as a way to boost use of the digital cash.
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Freedom of payments is an extension of financial privacy and digital cash-like transactions without financial intermediaries become a critical piece of that foundation.
The demand for an item, in this case digital cash with user-defined levels of privacy, does not simply evaporate in the face of a jurisdictional ban.
Electronic digital cash, for use on or off the Internet, may eventually provide some anonymity but, like today's physical cash, it will probably be used only for smaller purchases.
And that, indeed, is what most online publications have done, to the dismay of the digital-cash companies.
Unfortunately for both such would-be infopreneurs and for the digital-cash companies, the psychology of microtransactions is all wrong.
In addition to subscription fees, players will be offered the ability to pay real life cash for digital currency and items.
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One of the biggest barriers to success for the studios in the digital age has been the lack of a digital ecosystem that provides a consumer value proposition worthy enough for consumers to fork over their hard earned cash to own a digital movie.
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With plastic now being more prevalent than cash, Digital Tip Jar allows people to tip their favorite bands and musicians digitally.
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Bitcoin is a decentralized electronic cash system using digital signatures and cryptographic proof to enable irreversible payments between parties without relying on trust.
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In a day and age where few people actually carry cash, Digital Tip Jar allows users to tip their favorite musicians online using a credit card.
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Blu-ray purchases snapped up 7 percent, rentals of DVD and Blu-ray discs together were rolled up to take 18 percent of the pie, VOD accounted for 9 percent with 3 percent of the cash left for digital downloads and online streaming.
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The 31-year-olds were both shot in the head while their killers made off with their mobile phones, a cheap digital camera and a handful of cash.
Meanwhile, the shift to digital books has fueled an arms race among digital start-ups seeking to cash in on the massive pool of data collected by e-reading devices and reading apps.
With its FotoShow Digital Imaging Center, Iomega (nyse: IOM - news - people) is apparently hoping to cash in on the exploding popularity of digital photography and build a new market for its 250-megabyte Zip disks.
That's like Eastman Kodak putting 80% of its marketing and research and development budgets into traditional film and standing by while competitors cash in on the explosion in digital photography.
That's like Eastman Kodak (nyse: EK - news - people ) putting 80% of its marketing and research and development budgets into traditional film and standing by while competitors cash in on the explosion in digital photography.
Owners of bitcoins have also become the target of cyber thieves keen to cash in on the boom in the digital currency.
He has tripled the size of the network's digital platform with a mature Internet business that has strong cash flow.
Search warrants issued at the defendants' addresses uncovered evidence from mobile telephones and SIM cards, computers and digital media, travel documentation, passports and quantities of cash, the court heard.
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The company has also been trying to raise cash by seeking a buyer for its portfolio of digital imaging patents.
Western Digital has a strong balance sheet, filled with lots of cash.
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