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Here are the top 10 most popular stories On Bitcoin brought you in July 2013.

10. Bitbetex Jumps on the Bitcoin Gambling Bandwagon After SatoshiDice Exit

9. Bitcoin Gambling Company SatoshiDice Sold for $11.5 Million

8. Argentina Bitcoin Adoption Jumps in Recent Months

7. Turn Cash into Bitcoins in Seconds with the Lamassu Bitcoin ATM Machine

6. Bitcoin Prediction Market Predictious: Bet on Gender of the Royal Baby

5. Finding Business Model Opportunities in Bitcoin

4. Inside Bitcoins NYC Keynote: Is Bitcoin the New Financial Order?

3. Work in Silicon Valley? Pay with Bitcoin at Coupa Café in Palo Alto

2. Building Bitcoin into the Core Architecture of the Web

1. Cruise Ship Startup Community Blueseed Gets Bitcoin Funding

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Bitcoin News

A roundup of the top Bitcoin news from July 15 to July 21.

Monday, July 15

• Bitcoin Prediction Market Predictious: Bet on Gender of the Royal Baby

Tuesday, July 16

• Argentina Bitcoin Adoption Jumps in Recent Months – Report

Thursday, July 18

• Cruise Ship Startup Community Blueseed Gets Bitcoin Funding

Friday, July 19

• Bitcoin Gambling Company SatoshiDice Sold for $11.5 Million

Sunday, July 21

• Work in Silicon Valley? Pay with Bitcoin at Coupa Café in Palo Alto

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Coupa Café Starts Accepting Bitcoin

If you work in Silicon Valley, you know of Coupa Café. It’s a coffee shop in Palo Alto where the typical patrons are tech startup entrepreneurs coding away on a Macbook Air while they sip a latte.

Now this trendy coffee shop is becoming a payments pioneer by accepting Bitcoin at the register.

“It’s like when the Internet first started in the ’90s,” said Mike Landau in an interview with Palo Alto Online. Landau is a Facebook software engineer who helped build the technology that enables Coupa Café to accept Bitcoins.

“Bitcoin does two things,” Landau explained. “One is, it’s a currency. But it’s also a medium of transaction. You can imagine it being kind of like PayPal, but completely open source and decentralized. There’s no one company that’s in charge.”

Coupa Café’s cash register rings up a sale in both dollars and Bitcoin. Customers who want to pay in Bitcoin can use an app called Blockchain to scan the cafe’s QR code and send BTC for payment.

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