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Re:The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative ... by the_unknown on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @01:30PM (#3798691)
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/royal-canadian-mint-developing...

"...will be formally unveiled on April 17 by Chief Financial Officer Marc Brulé in a keynote at The Canadian Institute's Forum on Canadian Payment Innovations.

The digital payments space has been booming recently. Canadian-born companies like PayFirma and NetSecure are already active in the mobile payments industry, not to mention American counterparts such as Square, as well as some failed ideas such as the Bitcoin."

Doesn't necessarily mean it is real but it does seem to be.

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Re:The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative ... by ajasmin on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @06:01PM (#3800088)
Failed ideas?
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Re:The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative ... by Pwnguinz on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @07:05PM (#3800360)
I guess 1 BTC to ~$4.5 CAD [1] is considered a failure to some. Based on the average volume of 10K BTC a week, that's $45,000 CAD exchanging hands a week. Not mind blowing, but certainly not a failure, I would say.

[1] Average price from https://www.cavirtex.com/home

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Re:The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative ... by macavity23 on Thursday April 05, 2012 @04:47AM (#3801811)
10K a week? Not by a long shot. Check out http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg60zm1g10zm2g25zxz... - Average looks more like 50K/day, and that's just one exchange (the biggest one). If you look at the chart over the longer term, you can see the volumes steadily rising.
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