New Hampshire – the first colony to sever ties from Great Britain – is once again leading the revolution. Along with its centuries-long “Live Free or Die” culture, New Hampshire is becoming a Mecca for digital currency enthusiasts. In just the last few years, Bitcoin experts and entrepreneurs have been eagerly coming to New Hampshire to spread...
Friday, October 31, 2014
I Just Paid for Top-Notch Surgery with Bitcoin and Gold
I suspected we were dealing with a whole new breed of medical practice from the very first d...
Butterfly Labs vs. Robogate: A Revealing Case Study in Justice
As happens in all brand-spanking-new industries, the first actors who come to market aren’t vetted yet. The vast majority of merchants in the cryptocurrency space don’t have lengthy records of succ...
Cryptomen Launches Breakthrough BTC Investment Trading Service
Later today, the first ever cryptocurrency trading fund will close its funding period for its first venture: now, you can allow experts to trade your bitcoins on your behalf, while you wat...
CoinAgenda’s Best Startup Winners: 3 Companies to Keep an Eye On
BitAngels has named the winners of its startup competition, which was held earlier this month at the CoinAgenda conference in Las Veg...
Australian Authorities About to Sell at Auction 24,500 BTC Confiscated From Silk Road Drug Dealer
An Australian Silk Road drug dealer was sentenced today to 11 years of prison for commercial trafficking. Local authorities are about to sell at auction nearly 25,000 BTC seized in 20...
Urose 2014 Conference: What We Should Expect From Urocoin
The Uro Foundation announces the expansion of the URO ecosystem at the Urose 2014 Conference, held in Hong Kong on October ...
A New Era for the Bitcoin Foundation: Matonis Passes the Torch to Patrick Murck
The Bitcoin Foundation announced yesterday that Jon Matonis would be stepping down as Executive Director. The position would be filled by Patrick Murck who had formally worked as the Foundation’s G...
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Dark Wallet Walkthrough
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Wall of Coins: Buy Bitcoin Safely at Your Local Bank
Wall of Coins is a new service that gives users the ability to purchase Bitcoin at their local bank. There are a lot of ways to obtain Bitcoin. Buying them from traders or in face-to-face (OTC) are...
The Mixed Fortunes of Bitcoin in Australia
While even the Bitcoin Foundation seems to be skeptical of increasing Bitcoin merchant diversity, an existing start-up has come forward to deliver some unadulterated good news on the Bitcoin ecosys...
Spells of Orbital: The First Game that Uses Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Announced
“Spells of Orbital is a unique combination of an arcade game and a trading card game, which will be published on smartphones and tablets (iOS and Android),” reads an anonymous post on CryptocoinTalk...
How to Protect Your Bitcoin Business from Regulators
Interview with Mike Gropp, BitBays Co-Foun...
It’s Raining Bitcoins on Strippers in Tampa
Now 2001 Odyssey is upping the discretion to new levels by allowing online patrons to rain money on dancers and pay with Bitco...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
December 5-6, 2014: First-Ever Virtual Expo for the Global Crypto Community
Hundreds of developers, opinion leaders, bitcoiners and enthusiasts have already confirmed their attendance at the first virtual cryptocurrency conference: the Crypto Money Virtual Ex...
Coinbase Giving Users Access To Private Keys Using New 'MultiVault' Service
Coinbase is launching a multi-signature vault service, finally giving security conscious users an option to control their own private keys and therefore, their own fun...
Shopify’s 120K Merchants Can Now Accept Payments in Litecoin and Dogecoin
In a release sent out on Wednesday, cryptocurrency payments processor GoCoin announced it had partnered with ecommerce platform Shopify, whose 120 thousand-plus merchants will now be able to sell to...
When The Bit-Economy Is Born, Old Arguments Will Become Irrelevant
The Capitalist versus Communist debate has been going on for generations. As Blockchain economies emerge, the answer becomes "neither" and "bot...
BayBitHack Increasing the Number of Skilled Bitcoin Developers
Bay BitHack is more than just a hackathon; it’s a statement of the recent strides that the nascent Bitcoin has made in its evolution towards an understood legitimacy amongst the tech crowd and Bitc...
Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt to Advise BitPay and Vaurum
BitPay and Vaurum announced the addition of a seasoned regulatory adviser. Former Securities and Exchanges Commission Chair Arthur Levitt oversaw the U.S. agency for half a decade and is well-versed...
“I’m Very Interested To See If We Can Determine the Percentage of Bitcoiners who are Honest Taxpayers”
Interview with LibraTax CEO, Jake Ben...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
BitQuick’s New Campaign
BitQuick is challenging USA and Europe to sell their bitcoins by using Bitquick.co.“We’re calling it the BitQuick challenge,” says Founder Jad Mubaslat. “We’re so confident users will come back, that we’re giving away $10 or 0.03 BTC, whichever is greater, to the first 150 new sellers for the month of October and November. We’re also completely...
Bittrex To Drop BlackCoin and Litecoin Pairs
Popular exchange Bittrex was experimenting with Blackcoin pairs, but today they announced they will be dropping both BlackCoin and Litecoin pai...
‘It is Impossible to Technically Ban Decentralized Cryptocurrencies Due to the Nature of the Internet’ – Evgeny Volovik
Evgeny Volovik is the head of the Information and Communication Department at Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service Resource Cent...
IRS Seizes Assets on Suspicion Only: Bitcoin could be Next
The law, known as “civil asset forfeiture” was structured to not only track deposits made by suspected criminals but to seize them as well. But anyone who knows how bureaucracies operate knows that...
4 Reasons Why Economists Should Love Bitcoin
I studied economics and this doesn’t make sense to me. From an academic standpoint all I see is vast potential for this technology. Here are the top 4 reasons why economists should love Bitco...
ATOMIC: A Decentralized Ledger for All Blockchain-Based Technology
ATOMIC is a blockchain that seeks to act as a ledger for any and all cross-chain transactions. It’s billed as a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation and can also be used as a decentralized exchange...
US Regulators’ One-Two Punch: SEC Probes Crowdsales, FinCEN Takes Aim at Exchanges
In the last 24 hours, a couple of developments coming out of the US have shaken up American cryptocurrency communiti...
Monday, October 27, 2014
Researcher Discovers Tor Is Vulnerable To Malware Binaries Inserted By Exit Nodes
A researcher has found that at least one Tor exit node has been acting malicious...
The Full Story Of CannabisCoin's Premine Burn
Investors were happy when CannabisCoin developer Delta9 burned the coin's premine, but do any questions rema...
Swiss Bank UBS Executive Believes 'Digitalization Is One of the Threats to the Financial Services Industry'
Swiss Bank UBS CIO Oliver Bussmann settled a system of internal working groups devoted to working on innovative technology projects and puts the blockchain as top priori...
New BTMs: A Bitcoin Embassy, a German Meetup and a Midwestern Arcade Bar
CoinTelegraph is a proud partner of Coin ATM Radar, which regularly updates a helpful and navigable Bitcoin ATM map, to get the most comprehensive data about new BTMs as they go onli...
Bitcoin Analysis: Week of Oct 26 (Intro to RSI)
The week of October 26th Bitcoin Analysis by Tone Va...
“It's Fairly Similar to Reddit, But It Doesn’t Have a Server Somewhere” – Burak Nehbit, Aether Dev
Burak Nehbit is the San Francisco-based developer of Aether, a peer-to-peer, open source protocol for posting and discussi...
Sunday, October 26, 2014
ApplePay Faltering Could be an Opening for Bitcoin
Discount rates are the bane of merchants around the world. Simply put they are the percentage paid by merchants for each transaction that involves credit or debit cards. These fees can range from a...
With Crypto Next PLC Anyone Can Setup a Digital Currency Exchange in a Matter of Hours
Isle of Man digital currency startup Crypto Next PLC unveils public beta global exchange platform at Inside Bitcoin Conference in Tel Av...
Weekend Roundup: The BlockNet, Funding Continues for Payment Processors, and Chinese Miners Are About to Eat Everyone’s Lunch
New Weekend Roundup from CoinTelegr...
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Gems to Decentralize Social Network Messaging and Reward Users
First there were social networks, then came Bitcoin. Then Bitcoin 2.0. Now, directly over the horizon, comes a new platform—a “social network 2.0” called Ge...
Epicenter Bitcoin Ep 47, College Crypto: “We Don’t Have to Deal With Banks Anymore”
"Young people are so integrated with the Internet [...] to introduce a currency that exists only online really makes sense for young people like u...
“I Would Fight to Make Sure that the Bitcoin Sector Would Stay Unregulated” - Libertarian Candidate, Will Hammer
Will Hammer is the Libertarian candidate for the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Sixth District. The 27 year old candidate is running against incumbent Bob...
Accelerator Boost VC CEO Adam Draper Believes 'Singapore is the Place for Bitcoin in Asia'
As Singaporean Bitcoin startup CoinHako approaches demo day at accelerator Boost, Silicon Valley eyes Singapore as a Bitcoin h...
Friday, October 24, 2014
MIT Computer Scientists Can Predict the Price of Bitcoin
Two computer scientists from MIT claim to have developed a “machine learning algorithm” that can potentially be used to predict the price of Bitco...
Darknet Market Search Engine Founder: ‘Darknet Promotes Freedoms not Criminal Acts’
Six months ago a Reddit user by the name gramsadmin posted on /r/DarkNetMarkets to announce the launch of a new darknet search engine, Grams. Designed to be Google for the lesser-traveled portions...
Digital Currency Summit Andorra: Bitcoin in the banking nation
Last September 17th to 19th, the Digital Currency Summit was celebrated in Andorra, the small country placed three hours away from Barcelona; it was a three day debate forum which treated topics like the use and importance of cryptocurrencies for banks, governments, investors and general public. In order to achieve that goal there were organised...
Bitcoin Gaining a Foothold in Brazil
Many things that can be said about Brazil, but income equality is not one of them. The recent troubles during the World Cup demonstrated that the great majority of the population has been anything ...
BitWage Founder, Jonathan Chester: “We see Bitcoin as a Way to Bring Modern Financial Tools to the Unbanked”
Jonathan Chester, founder of BitWage, sees the role of BitWage in bringing modern banking tools to this emerging segment of electronic money use...
Blockstream on a Roll: Reid Hoffman on the Board, Company Raises $15 Million
There is an old Hindi saying that goes “money begets money,” which in English usually translates to “it takes money to make money.” This seems to be holding very true for Blockstream according to r...
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Recap: Bitcoin 2 Business Congress in Brussels
The very first Bitcoin 2 Business Congress kicked off on October 16 at a very nice looking location in Brussels: the B19 Business Cl...
The Alt Cracks: Altcoin Stories That Fell Through The Cracks 10/23
Twitch.tv starts accepting Dogecoin, BlueCoin needs a mascot, KoreCoin makes it so the NSA can't snoop on your phonecalls, and a potential scam tries to piggy back on the success of Marijuana-backed...
Proof-of-Knowledge: Andreas Antonopoulos Teaches Free Blockchain-Certified Crypto Course
It’s fitting that the world’s first college degree in cryptocurrencies is offered in Cyprus — one of the first geographical regions that widely embraced Bitcoin. The University of Nicosia in Cyprus...
BitFury Announces ‘Strategic Investment’ in Payment Platform GoCoin
BitFury Capital, the VC arm of the multifaceted BitFury Group, announced Wednesday it had invested an undisclosed amount in payment processor GoCoin. BitFury also said it would use GoCoin as the de...
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