Silicon Valley catches Bitcoin fever - FT.com

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/943494ea-5aa5-11e3-b255-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2mJLqlHZM
Having been conscious of the p2p protocol developments for over a decade and the emergence of the crowd and the cloud, Bitcoin has been looming for a couple of years. The popular press stories add to the tech hype but the opportunities in various area's from ecommerce to microfinance and mobile payments and remote service exchanges at an international level and even into areas like international development and #digitalDIYaid are interesting to keep an eye on

Silicon Valley catches Bitcoin fever - FT.com

Ripple and Buttercoin, a Bitcoin exchange.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/buttercoin/
http://buttercoin.com/#/
http://buttercoin.net/

https://ripple.com/
https://www.computingforgood.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_(monetary_system)

A couple to watch in 2014!