Thanks to Vijay and Isaac (@aniceberg) for some of these stories.

• Now Backed By Andreessen & More, OpenCoin Looks To Build A Better Bitcoin — And A Universal Payment Ecosystem from TechCrunch (as @aniceberg said last month “If ZeroCoin is open-source, they can’t hide a backdoor in it; if it isn’t OSS, there is ZeroChance of adoption”)
• New Chinese E-Store Caters to Expats in China, Supports Payments in Bitcoin from Tech In Asia (see BTCChina for largest BTC exchange on mainland)
• Bitcoin add-on makes your virtual purchases private from NewScientist (month-old story about Zerocoin)
• Meet the Bitcoin Millionaires from Businessweek
• Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money from The New York Times (why tell everyone, pump and dump?)
• OkCupid to support bitcoins ‘in few months’ from reddit
• Interview with Amagi Metals’ Stephen Macaskill from Bitcoin Magazine (tangential: Veksler said in the podcast, BTC could be seen as stamp collecting which would be meta if stamps collected antique coins)
• Digital currencies – A new specie from The Economist
• Unfazed By Bitcoin’s Wild Swings And Mysterious Origins, Silicon Valley VCs Place Their Bets from TechCrunch
• Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney) from Bitcoin Talk (ALS, sad)

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