The online retailer Overstock.com says it has sold more than $1 million in merchandise to customers using bitcoin.
The company, which started accepting the virtual currency in early January, estimates that almost 60 percent of bitcoin users are new customers.
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"We did not expect to hit this milestone so quickly," Chairman and CEO Patrick M. Byrne said in a statement.
Byrne also said he admires bitcoin because it doesn't have to report to a central authority and because of its constrained supply, which he compared to gold.
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The currency is under scrutiny after the collapse of Mt.Gox, a major bitcoin exchange, and a hack attack that stole over $600,000 worth of bitcoins from Flexcoin, a bank.
—By CNBC.com