Emin Gün Sirer, the Cornell professor who recently said that ChangeTip needed to die a quick death has returned to the offensive on the issue of privacy. ChangeTip CEO Nick Sullivan recently critic...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Anthony Di Iorio: 'The Time has come for me to focus on my Businesses'
Anthony Di Iorio, the founder of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada (BAC), has resigned from its position as Executive Director and member of the Board to focus on his businesses. He will continue to h...
The Nxt Client Just Gave Me a Braingasm
I see a lot of cryptocurrency-related press releases. I research many different crypto companies and coins. I comb through a lot of their websites and wikis. It’s part of the job. And about a month...
Singapore Hosting Inside Bitcoin 2015 Conference
The large cryptocurrency even, Inside Bitcoin, will be held next year in Singapore on January 29-30, 20...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Has China Abandoned Bitcoin?
There has been much conjecture on the role China has played in the rise and fall of Bitcoin’s price. Most in this space recognize that China has been leading the Bitcoin marketplace in terms of tra...
Bitcoin Wedding Industry Taking Off, iDIAMONDS Taking Bitcoins
The digital currency wedding industry is taking off with iDIAMONDS offering diamond rings for Bitcoin. Following the first blockchain wedding at Coins in the Kingdom in late 2014, the wedding indus...
Investing in the Bitcoin Space: Moe Levin Interviews Pantera Capital
At the nexus of North America and Latin America, Miami Beach’s historic Fillmore Theatre will stage The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) on January 16–18, 20...
New BTMs in North America, UK and Australia
The proliferation of BTMs around the world continued last week, even with the Christmas holiday giving billions of us an excuse not to do much work at a...
Bitreserve Raises US$9.5 Million in Second Largest Crowdfunding Round in the Digital Currency Sector
Bitreserve has become the second largest crowdfunded digital currency company by hitting US$9.5 million in a public Series-B investment rou...
TradeBlock Welcomes New Lead UI Engineer
Jeff Ward has been welcomed as the new lead UI engineer at TradeBlock, where he will be in charge of optimizing human-computer interactions on the TradeBlock Professional platfo...
Monday, December 29, 2014
The Nakamoto Institute's First Podcast Rebuts Buterin's Defense of Competing Cryptocurrencies
Poor cryptocurrency devotees would love to know, are they good investments? Or not? Many believe that a few good soldiers—or maybe many—could endure the storm of investments. But the Satoshi Nakam...
Cloud Mining Service Hashie.co Disappears With User Funds, Replaces Site With ARG
Hashie.co was a cloudmining site that claimed to have over 40,000 users. Its owners disappeared and users are missing their funds, but the scammer has stuck around to tease the victims with an Alte...
Reserve Bank Governor: India “will adopt digital currencies at some point”
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India has said he has “no doubt” that digital currencies will play a role in India's future society. Drawing a comparison between the rise of debit and credit ca...
Correction: Christmas Price Prediction Contest Winners (Please Read)
A few days ago we announced the winners of CoinTelegraph’s Christmas Price Prediction contest sponsored by Virtex and EgoPay. It has since come to our attention, however, that those named as winners...
Hyprkey: Almost Unhackable Authentication
A company based out of New York City called HyprKey aims to accomplish a three-factor level of security that credit cards, Apple Pay, CurrentC and Bitcoin haven...
The Federal Reserve Publishes Another Paper on Bitcoin
The Federal Reserve Bank in Washington, D.C. has issued a report entitled Bitcoin: Technical Background and Data Analysis. The recently released report, dated October 7, is a technical analysis of ...
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Ecuador Officially Launches Its Own E-Money System
Banco Central del Ecuador (BCE) announced it has officially entered into the first phase of the establishment of its own electronic cash system, asking citizens over 18 years old to open an account...
Coinbase Is Tracking How Users Spend Their Bitcoins
Coinbase has recently been demonstrating why consumer regulation is such a probl...
Future Alert: Wealth Sharing May Become the New File Sharing
Here’s a breakdown of the main points of the full piece, written by redditor aliensynt...
Weekend Roundup: Remittance Innovation for Philippines, Tor Attacked, Coinffeine’s Decentralized Exchange
Bitcoin Weekend Roundup from CoinTelegra...
Russian Ministry Questions Proposed ‘Quasi-Money’ Ban
Politicians rarely think about the long-term implications of policy proposals and nowhere is this more evident than in the Russian Federati...
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Epicenter Bitcoin Ep. 58: Vitalik Buterin on Proof-of-Stake and the Future of Crypto-Economics
In the latest episode of Epicenter Bitcoin, our guest was a man who needs little introduction in this community, Vitalik Buterin. We were very excited to finally have him on the show and go deep in...
Bitcoin Review 2014 Part II: VC Investment and Regulatory Environment
CoinTelegraph continues its Bitcoin Review 2014 with the second of three installments, this one covering VC investment and the international regulatory environment. The aim of the review is to prov...
‘Bitcoin Was the Real Winner’ at the First Annual Bitcoin Bowl
The buzz from the entire Bitcoin community united across the world was amazing to see, as the first major, national Bitcoin-sponsored event came to an end last nig...
Bitcoin Could Help US Protect Against Rising Card Fraud
Most people have no idea how insecure their credit and debit cards are. Scary Fact: A child with an old-style VCR can use it to obtain the information stored on a bank card's magnetic strip. It is ...
Bitnation Will Test Whether “Basic Income” is Actually Workable
Because coercive, state-run welfare is woefully ineffective (to say the very least), the cryptocurrency revolution has some people wondering if welfare schemes like a “basic income” might actually ...
Friday, December 26, 2014
Everything You Need To Know To Watch The Bitcoin Bowl
Everything you need to enjoy the first college football game sponsored by a Bitcoin comp...
Warren Buffet Wrong About Bitcoin ‘Mirage’ in 2014 (Op-Ed)
Warren Buffet is one of the most well-known investors in world. He has been in the news a great deal over the last few years after he publicly criticized the wealthiest members of society for paying...
Andreas Antonopoulos and Jeffrey Tucker Speak at Bitcoin South
The Bitcoin South conference in beautiful Queenstown, New Zealand was a smashing success, but don’t just take our word for it. All you need to do is keep an eye on Jeffrey Tucker’s twitter f...
Bitcoin Review 2014 Part I: Price and Commerical Activity
CoinTelegraph has put together a research report on Bitcoin’s journey through 2014. This year has seen many unprecedented events in cryptocurrency, and we’d like to highlight the main ones for read...
An Reo and Raduque AK win CoinTelegraph’s Christmas Price Prediction Contest with Virtex and EgoPay!
CoinTelegraph is pleased to announce the winners of the Christmas price prediction contest sponsored by Virtex and EgoP...
NYC's Department of Finance Issues RFI on Mobile Solutions for Payment of Parking Tickets
New York's Department of Finance (DOF) is issuing a Request for Information (RFI) on mobile solutions for payment and hearing scheduling for parking tickets, and identifies Bitcoin as one of the po...
Op-ed: Gold Versus Bitcoin: Quest for Supremacy
Even if gold were becoming hard to find on Earth recent discoveries on the asteroid Eros indicate that there is more gold on that one small space rock, 20,000 times more, than is produced on Earth...
OKCoin Adds New Trading Tools, Features in Bid to Lead Market
Things are moving fast at OKCoin. The Beijing-based Bitcoin exchange launched its international exchange website OKCoin.com in July, bidding on the wider global mark...
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Map of Coins joins the CoinTelegraph Media Group
The move adds yet another resource to the growing range of CoinTelegraph partners from across the cryptocurrency industry, providing unparalleled reach and variety for our advertising partne...
Join CoinTelegraph in Choosing the Winners of Our 2014 Bitcoin Industry Awards
We at CoinTelegraph would like to invite you, our readers, to participate with us in choosing the winners of our 2014 Bitcoin Industry Awar...
Maria’s Christmas Riddle and a Letter to Our Readers at the End of 2014
As 2014 draws to a close, CoinTelegraph is already looking forward to the next 12 months of news and innovation, from the uniquely exciting realm of digital curren...
Did The 500 Richest Bitcoiners Buy the Highs AND Lows?
A chart of the 500 Bitcoin addresses with the highest balances shows that all or most of them increased their holdings at every price (from the US$1 bitcoin to the US$1,100 bitcoi...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Bitcoin Is (Still) Not Doomed
by John LightWashington Post columnist Henry Farrell has just added himself to the Nakamoto Institute’s running list of skeptics making bold assertions about the certain demise of Bitcoin. In a post entitled “Bitcoin’s financial network is doomed,” Mr. Farrell demonstrates his short-sightedness in the face of Bitcoin’s subtlety and allure,...
Blockchain 2.0 arms race: Blocknet declares first shots fired between nodes on separate blockchains
Two individual blockchains have been successfully linked, as Blocknet announced last night that Xbridge technology had for the first time allowed communications between nodes on two separate blockc...
Professor Kevin Dowd: “The regulations in NY regarding BitLicense are a kiss of death”
Kevin Dowd is a professor of Economics and Finance at Durham University. A libertarian and fierce advocate of private money over government-issued and controlled alternatives, Dowd has written exte...
Peter Todd and the Expansion of Bitcoin
BIPS often start from a discussion on the developer mailing list or on Github. Such discussions are what inspired Peter Todd, a long time contributor to Bitcoin core and related projects, who is cu...
BitPay Announces Large-Scale Improvements to Bitcore, the JavaScript API
BitPay just announced major improvements to Bitcore, the new API for developing Bitcoin projects in JavaScri...
Vimeo’s Stripteasers Need Bitcoin QR Codes ASAP (NSFW)
You watch a striptease like “Hyena” by Sweet Lips on Vimeo, and you can’t help but want to tip h...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
What If Bitcoin Could Replace SIM Cards?
Naturally, Bitcoin plays a major role in this thought experiment. The title boldly proclaims, “Bitcoin Poised To Make SIM Cards Obsolete.” We know that Bitcoin has a range of uses, but is this one...
Students Could Save 17% on Loans by Paying with Bitcoin
A new service plans to help students use Bitcoin to reduce their student debt by as much as 17%. Brawker, in combination with Tuition.io, is offering tuition gift cards to studen...
Xapo: ‘Without Security, Nothing Else Matters’
One name on the lips of many at present is Xapo, a secure Bitcoin storage and payment facilitator which has seen much publicity. From initial praise to recent backlash from community commentators, ...
New BTMs: 10 Machines Go Live Across North America and Europe
Coin ATM Radar, CoinTelegraph’s partner in covering the ever-growing worldwide BTM network, just released an iOS app that will let you find your nearest Bitcoin ATM while you are moving about Toron...
Ho-Ho-Ho! Have a Merry Bitcoin Christmas Compliments of Virtex, EgoPay
The December 14 deadline has come and went. Now, with only a few days before Christmas, we are currently keeping a close eye on the price on Virtex.com, which we will compare with the flood of pred...
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