Tech Talk: Bitcoin now in use for direct investments

Blockchain is best known in conjunction with cryptocurrencies, and is the underlying technology for digital coin exchanges like bitcoin. (MONTCO.Today file photo)

Bitcoin investors are now using the cryptocurrency to make purchases in the real world.

Most earlier transactions involved the buyer converting Bitcoin into U.S. dollars to make the purchase — a liquidation of assets, much in the same way a first-time homebuyer might use investment dollars to afford a down payment, writes Andrew Zeleski at curbed.com.

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Then, in late December, what was considered to be the first Bitcoin-only real estate deal went down when Ivan “Paychecks” Pacheco, co-founder of cryptocurrency website Bits to Freedom, transferred 17.741 Bitcoins ($275,000) to a seller to buy a two-bedroom condo in Miami.

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