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Thirty-five-year-old software engineer Mike Caldwell mints physical versions of bitcoins at his shop in Sandy, Utah, cranking out homemade tokens with codes protected by tamper-proof holographic seals, a retro-futuristic kind of prepaid cash. The currency made its online debut only four years ago.

Online currency Bitcoin moving more mainstream

Bitcoin's growing popularity and a recent surge in value has caught the eye of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, including some who are convinced that Bitcoin could be the biggest thing on the Internet since, well, the Internet.

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Restaurateur Jeff Ruby tweets he's opening in Lexington, says no more

Restaurateur Jeff Ruby tweeted Friday afternoon that he plans to open a restaurant in Lexington's long-delayed CentrePointe development downtown in May 2015.
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Louisville-built Ford Escape gets poor crash-test rating

The new, Louisville-built Ford Escape, the top-selling small SUV so far this year, got a "poor" overall rating in front-end crash tests conducted by an insurance industry group.
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Family Foundation files instant racing briefs to Kentucky Supreme Court

The Family Foundation has filed response briefs with the Kentucky Supreme Court laying out its argument for allowing discovery in the instant racing case.
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Craft Beer Week celebrates growth of Lexington's brewery business

Two years ago, Lexington had one brewery and two or three nice places to get a craft beer.
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Bourbon Classic to return to Louisville in 2014

The Bourbon Classic, a weekend of tastings and discussions of bourbon-themed topics, will return to Louisville in 2014 after a successful debut this spring.
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Louisville distillery joins Kentucky Bourbon Trail

LOUISVILLE — The Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, a $10 million tourism center for bourbon maker Heaven Hill, will become the eighth distillery on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
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Business Lexington to move to monthly publication; ex-editor hired by KyForward

Business Lexington will go from being a twice-monthly publication to monthly, beginning with its June issue, on newsstands May 31.
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Texas professor to head University of Kentucky accounting school

An accounting professor at the University of Texas at Austin has been named the new director of the University of Kentucky's accounting school. Urton Anderson is expected to start his job at the Von Allmen School of Accountancy, part of the UK's Gatton College of Business and Economics, on July 1.
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Salsarita's Mexican restaurant chain to open in Lexington

A chain of fast-casual Mexican restaurants plans to expand in Lexington in the coming years under a franchise agreement with a Paris couple.
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Bluegrass-area tourism up 2.8 percent in 2012

The Kentucky annual tourism survey showed an increase in Lexington in 2012 and gains in nine of the state's tourism regions, according to the Kentucky Tourism Arts and Heritage Cabinet.