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DC Download: Bitcoin Debit Card, Circleback Cuts and 50 on Fire Tech Finalists


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Will a debit card take bitcoin mainstream?
  • Popular bitcoin wallet Coinbase has come out with the first bitcoin debit card, the Shift Card. It basically acts like any other Visa debit card, but with the ability to use bitcoin without having to turn it into cash. The question now is whether this will be enough to make the niche cryptocurrency popular with everyone.
Millennial shopping habits are changing everything
  • Companies that want Millennials to buy things from them during the holidays had better be prepared to meet them where they are. Brian Warmoth takes a look at how this generation shops differently from those that came before, and how companies can entice them.
Circleback cuts half its staff
  • CircleBack was picked as a rising star in D.C. four months ago after it raised $12 million from some bigventure capital firms. Now, it turns out they are letting half of their staff go. Chris Bing takes a look at what just happened.
Hottest tech innovators in DC
  • DC is full of innovators using technology to build the future and our list of 50 on Fire finalists in tech offers up some great examples of just how creative that tech can be. Meet the "Bloomberg of weed," the designers of next-gen satellites and more of the tech trailblazers that made it to the list.

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