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November 27, 2013, 3:30 PM

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Bitcoin passes $1,000 mark for the first time, up over 62% in a week — Bitcoin hit a new milestone today, passing the $1,000 mark for the first time. The virtual currency is currently trading above the four-digit figure, with its highest at $1,030 on Mt. Gox, one of the largest exchanges.

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Adrian Chen / New York Times:

Much Ado About Bitcoin — FOR the obsessive followers of the volatile virtual currency bitcoin, the price of a single bitcoin at the time their fixation began holds undue significance. I know one bitcoin cost around $9 when I first stumbled on it in the summer of 2011.

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

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Ian Traynor / Guardian:

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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

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Paul Lilly / Hot Hardware:

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Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:

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Daniel Robinson / V3.co.uk:

First Jolla smartphone from former Nokia staff goes on sale — Jolla, the smartphone startup founded by ex-Nokia engineers, is set to sell its first handsets from today in Finland, with availability in other countries to follow. — The Jolla handset runs the Sailfish OS …

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