A new poker room should make his appearance next month (February, 2013). The Infinite Poker poker room began its phase of tests in November and will be available to the public soon. Pessimists will surely say that at this stage in the history of online poker, we did not need an additional poker room XE, but its great feature is that you can use multiple currencies including the bitcoins!
The founder and CEO of Poker, Michael Hajduk Infiniti, has partnered with with the Bitcoin wallet to create a really user-friendly interface (user friendly) with very fast to get pay. According to Haiduk, bitcoin is the safest option that is. According to him, given that it's "peer-to-peer exchanges and that banks are not involved in trade, there is nothing illegal and no American law has been violated.
In the worst case, if the Department of Justice (DoJ) before their domain name, because there is no central authority that controls the bitcoins, this currency will not be frozen by any party.
Obviously, it will not be public (mainstream) of whether early. The bitcoins can be purchased in more than 700,000 locations in the United States including participating Wal-Mart, and 7-Eleven. A company called BitPay received half a million in investment and hopes to one day become the new PayPal for virtual currencies.
The bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment solution (peer to peer). One uses the Bitcoins in a network that is secured by encryption with other users of this currency. Using of Bitcoins to buy something on the Internet, there is no danger of identity theft, because it is as if you paid with species. With credit cards, there is indeed a risk that data such as the name and address, the card number and the code be stolen, because we must enter it to prove its identity.
Like PayPal, credit cards are also not usable in all countries. PayPal blocks access in more than 60 countries. Merchants who accept the bitcoins, are not subject to this limit.
BitPay was founded in May 2011 by two graduates of Georgia Tech. With money from investors, the company will engage five people, mainly engineers, in order to continue to develop the platform bitcoin.
To return to the poker room, the Americans can only use their bitcoins on Infiniti Poker, but the other players around the world can use several other kinds of currencies including credit cards and eCheck.
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