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  • We would have to meet someone who has them and exchange our cash for their bitcoins.

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  • So we decide to use our bitcoins to buy lunch at one of the few places that will accept bitcoins, a restaurant in Manhattan

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  • He sent the bitcoins to a volunteer in England, who then called in a credit card order transatlantically.

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  • Gavin told us to get bitcoins we would have to visit an online exchange where you can trade actual dollars for the virtual currency.

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  • A farmer in Massachusetts named David Forster began accepting bitcoins as payment for alpaca socks.

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  • Laszlo Hanyecz, a Florida programmer, conducted what bitcoiners think of as the first real-world bitcoin transaction, paying 10,000 bitcoins to get two pizzas delivered from Papa John's.

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  • Gavin Andresen, a coder in New England, bought 10,000 bitcoins for $50 and created a site called the Bitcoin Faucet, where he gave them away for the hell of it.

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  • Around the year 2140, the currency would reach its preordained limit of 21 million bitcoins.

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  • The first miner to solve each puzzle would be awarded 50 new bitcoins, and the associated block of transactions would be added to the chain.

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  • So we decide to use our bitcoins to buy lunch at one of the few places that will accept bitcoins, a restaurant in Manhattan

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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