Sunday, August 31, 2014

“The Middle East is Ripe for Bitcoin Adoption” - Jad Mubaslat, CEO, BitQuick.me

Jad Mubaslat is a senior student in biomedical engineering and avid entrepreneur based in Colombus, Ohio. He founded BitQuick, an over-the-counter (OTC) Bitcoin trading platform in February 20...
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Charges Reduced: Charlie Shrem Agrees to Plea Deal

U.S. v. Faiella, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 14-cr-00243, which involved two defendants, Robert Faiella and Charlie Shrem, was at least halfway settled on Friday when Ch...
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Australian Bitcoin Startup Igot Launches UAE's First Exchange

Australia-based Bitcoin startup Igot, announced on August 29 it had launched the first Bitcoin exchange in the United Arab Emirates (UA...
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Bitcoin Analysis: Week of Aug 31 (Intro to Time)

Next part of the Tony Vays' guide into Bitcoin price chart analys...
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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Weekend Roundup: Quibbling Over Definition of Money, Santander Group Shows Interest in BTC, and Telekom Slovenije Interested in BTC

Weekly roundup by CoinTelegra...
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Ecuador’s First State-Issued “Limitless” Digital Currency Coming in December

Ecuador has announced that its government-backed digital currency will be ready for circulation by December in a move which analysts dispute is tantamount to replacing the US dollar as its legal te...
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Julia Tourianski: The New Face in the Fight for Bitcoin’s Freedom

If you haven’t heard of her yet, don’t worry, you soon will because she is not going to stop spreading the message for Humanity’s Freedom & Independence using her favorite weapon: Bitco...
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Friday, August 29, 2014

Simon Fraser: First University in Canada to Accept BTC Donations

Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, became the first Canadian university to accept Bitcoin donations, the school announced Thursd...
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Australian Tax Official: Bitcoin Could Be ‘Money’ if Growth Continues

Tax commissioner Chris Jordan said that while Bitcoin cannot currently be considered money this might change in the future with wider acceptance and u...
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Lithuanian Airline Air Lituanica Gets Its First Customer Using Bitcoin

Lithuanian airline Air Lituanica announced on August 26 it has started to accept payments in bitcoins for flight tickets purchas...
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An Interview With Bobby Lee, CEO of BTC China

Bobby Lee is the CEO of BTC China, a three year old exchange which he purchased in 2013. Following his purchase, Mr. Lee led a brisk expansion in market share that coincided with rising Bitcoin prices in the fourth quarter of the year. December 2013 saw BTC China leading the world’s Bitcoin exchanges in volume.While trading activity has dropped...
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Chinese Exchanges Setting New Transparency Standard as Huobi Audit Reveals 100% Reserves

Chinese crypto exchange Huobi has joined the country’s elite league of those to pass the proof-of-solvency audit tod...
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Major European Telecoms Provider Warms to Bitcoin, Sponsors Conference in Slovenia

Telekom Slovenje, the Slovenian national telecommunications provider, has told CoinTelegraph its intention to consider Bitcoin as a payment opti...
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Caribbean Island Becomes Bitcoin Nation: Interview with Sarah Blincoe, Project Manager

Project Manager Sarah Blincoe agreed to speak with CoinTelegraph today and answer a few questions about how the “Let the Bit Drop” project came to be and what the future might ho...
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Bitcoin Warrior Joins CT Media Group

The CoinTelegraph has expanded its media group yet again with the proud addition of the Bitcoin Warrior to its ran...
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Thursday, August 28, 2014

OpenBazaar Explains Proof Of Burn As It Nears Beta Release

OpenBazaar gives sellers a way to prove they aren't scammers: setting their Bitcoin on fi...
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Bitcoin Malware Used to Exploit the Russia-Ukraine Crisis

A group of hackers tried to leverage the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia by distributing malware aimed at Bitcoin walle...
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Rebutting the NY Post’s Lazy Criticisms of Bitcoin

On Thursday, New York Post columnist John Crudele published a patronizing critique of the MIT Bitcoin project, we thought it would be best to rebut Crudele point by poi...
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Bitcoiners Not Impressed by Coinbase's Insurance Announcement

Bitcoin exchange platform and payment solutions provider Coinbase, announced it has held insurance against theft or loss of its bitcoins for almost a ye...
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Hot Cryptocurrency Trends: Delegated Proof of Stake

This is a guest post by Max Wright Disclaimer: Max Wright owns both Bitcoin and BitSharesX. Wright’s critique of the security concerns of DPOS can be found at http://ift.tt/1hmyRm2 In August of 2014, in front of a small crowd at a regional Bitcoin event in Raleigh, North Carolina, a panel of arguably 6 of the brightest minds in Crypto...
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Discount Available For The Digital Currency Summit

Just today, Thursday, August 28th, by paying with bitcoin you can buy one of the 25 discounted tickets for the Digital Currency Summit that will be in Andorra next September 17-19.Only for 2 BTC, instead of the regular price of 1190€, you can participate in this event and enjoy a wide range of talks organized in different categories like...
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Op-Ed: On the Current Decline of Altcoins

The current decline of alt-coins has recently been on my mind a lot; as has been the marginalization of many of these coins. Some of them have great concepts, for example Datacoin. So what is going...
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Newegg expands BTC Payments into Canada, Committed to be “At the Forefront of Technology"

American online electronics retailer giant Newegg, explains why it expanded its Bitcoin payment option to Cana...
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BitGive Officially recognized as Charity by IRS, secures 80% of funding target

Bitcoin charity BitGive Foundation has received official approval from governme...
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Texas Federal Magistrate Reaffirms Ruling that Bitcoin is Money

The question of whether Bitcoin can be considered “money” from both a legal and tax perspective in the United States has been in the news a great deal recently. The latest chapter comes again from ...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

BitLicense 2014 vs IntLicense 1994: What if this had passed 20 years ago?

The Bitlicense regulation is bringing up memories of early internet regulation. What would have happened if today's Bitcoin regulation was applied to yesterday's Intern...
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Dark Wallet vs Bitcoin Fog: Battle Of Anonymous Bitcoin Services

With the recent news that SharedCoin has some major security holes, we decided now would be the best time to check out some alternative servic...
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New Businesses Accepting BTC: BuyCBDOnline.com, EIGHT Eyewear, a Psychic and more

More and more business are beginning to accept Bitcoin as a payment option. The digital currency has gained a lot of popularity in the last year, and it's not just being accepted by companies, but ...
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New Businesses Accepting BTC: BuyCBDOnline.com, EIGHT Eyewear, a Psychic and more

More and more business are beginning to accept Bitcoin as a payment option. The digital currency has gained a lot of popularity in the last year, and it's not just being accepted by companies, but ...
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10 Reasons Why Bitcoin is Better than PayPal

We decided to give readers a rundown of why we at CoinTelegraph are all about crypto for sending and receiving payments – any paymen...
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Romania Becomes the First Eastern European Chapter Affiliate of the Bitcoin Foundation

The Bitcoin Foundation announced Wednesday that it had allied with its first chapter affiliate in Eastern Europe, Fundatia Bitcoin Roman...
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Canadian Startup SecuraCoin Launches Brick-and-Mortar Bitcoin Exchange Network

Toronto-based startup SecuraCoin officially launched last week with a service that will allow brick-and-mortar businesses to buy, sell and accept bitcoins while remaining compliant with existing re...
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Startups Accelerator Boost VC Picks Up Singaporean Bitcoin Exchange

In Asia, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-related startups and projects have consequently increased in numbers since the beginning of 2014, attracting more and more VC investments from the We...
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Bitpay Targeted By Phishing Attacks Again

Bitpay has announced that a malicious party imitating their email is sending out phishing attempts. Bitpay's full statement insi...
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North Carolina mulls Legislation, but not a BitLicense in sight

Digital currencies and lawmakers are formally crossing paths ever more frequently. In the US, it is North Carolina which most recently took on the challenge of marrying them together with local leg...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

SF Bitcoin Meetup @ Geekdom

[Live Video Stream] SF Bitcoin Meetup @ GeekdomBTC: 13xJRq2FDTmPrWj9BxWEkFgv1JKxZsuujCLTC: LfeDFoC4c6YyEsXw6pXZ7R6ADHqRxfgy7LDOGE: DSYwWb71hmvnhp18wDVzvQepVkNazSfKAk Ryan Taylor, a native of northern California, is a twenty first century renaissance man who firmly believes in making the world a better place through art and technology and...
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Interview with Russell Thomas, CIO, PotCoin Systems

The newly legalized and burgeoning Cannabis industry has called out for its own distinct cryptocurrency. PotCoin was designed to empower, secure and facilitate the Cannabis community both medicinal...
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Largest Bank in the Eurozone Commissions a Study on the Impact of Bitcoin on the Banking Industry

Santander Group, the largest bank in the Eurozone by market value, commissioned 'insight network' and consultancy firm Yegii to conduct a study to "analyze the impact of bitcoin and other cryptocur...
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Australia’s Tax Office Guidelines Open Door to Double Taxing, Other Problems

The Bitcoin cause might have taken a small step backward last week with the announcement by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) that Bitcoin would not be considered “money” for tax purpos...
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Bitbond’s Radoslav Albrecht: ‘Getting a Marketplace off the Ground is Always Hard’

We reported two weeks ago on Berlin-based startup Bitbond and how that company had just secured a round of funding worth 200 thousand euro. Earlier this week, we had a chance to speak with Radoslav...
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Blue Moon? DOGE Market cap soars by millions in 24 hours

Old shibes die hard, and it will come as no surprise to many stalwart Dogecoin investors that the traditional altcoin is making a fast comeback after months of nothing but doom and glo...
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Why the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s Spending PAC is Big News

The Chamber of Digital Commerce has registered a political action committee with the United States Federal Election Commission, which means that Bitcoin and other cryptocoin lobbyists in Washington,...
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New Businesses Accepting Bitcoin: Shipito, New Age Auto Sales, and more

More and more business are beginning to love Bitcoin. The digital currency has gained a lot of popularity in the last year, and it's not just being accepted by companies, but also by the general pu...
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Monday, August 25, 2014

EXCLUSIVE: Key Negotiator In Bter NXT Hack Speaks

BTer was saved from near certain destruction after it suffered a hack resulting in the loss of 51 Million NXT from the exchange, thanks to a third party negotiator. Now, that negotiator is speaking...
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EXCLUSIVE: Key Negotiator In Bter NXT Hack Speaks

BTer was saved from near certain destruction after it suffered a hack resulting in the loss of 51 Million NXT from the exchange, thanks to a third party negotiator. Now, that negotiator is speaking...
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