Coinprism is the first colored-coins Bitcoin wallet. They offer the ability to prove ownership of stocks, bonds, commodities, smart property and more by “coloring” bitcoins with the Open Assets pro...
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Weekend Roundup: Black Friday, eBay Interested in Bitcoin, and Library Accepts BTC Amid Riots
New weekend roundup from CoinTelegr...
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Report: ‘Virtual Currencies Set to Quickly Disrupt Major Markets’
According to a study published recently by Technology Strategies International, Inc. (TSI), virtual currencies are likely to be a major disruptive force within the next deca...
Economist Jeffrey Tucker on the ‘Threat of Deflation’ in Eurozone
Jeffrey Tucker is an economist who’s also savvy with blockchains (a rare combination). He is responsible for introducing Bitcoin to many of his readers via his authorship of four books and founding...
OpalCoin Joins the SuperNET Core, Partners with Storj
Opal, an anonymity- and ease-of-use-centric 2.0 coin app, has partnered with Storj and the SuperNET to bring to the mainstream a blockchain-secure, anonymous information netwo...
OpalCoin Joins the SuperNET Core and Partners with Storj
Opal, an anonymity- and ease-of-use-centric 2.0 coin app, has partnered with Storj and the SuperNET to bring to the mainstream a blockchain-secure, anonymous information netwo...
Cracks in the Fiat Money System: The Swiss Gold Referendum and Currency Pegging
On November 30, Swiss voters will go to the polls to vote on what is being called the “Save Our Swiss Gold” referend...
Bitcoin Black Friday: Participation Rising ‘As People Discover They Can Save Money Using Bitcoin’
Black Friday becomes an ever more popular event with early Christmas shoppers each year, especially during the last deca...
Jon Matonis: ‘Bitcoin Is the No. 1 Topic’ at European E- Commerce Conference
Just two weeks after stepping down as executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, Jon Matonis was in Riga, Latvia, for the eCom21 III International E-Commerce Forum to discuss Bitcoin payments w...
Friday, November 28, 2014
Inside Bitcoins Finalizes Speakers for South Korea’s 1st Major Event
Inside Bitcoins Conference and Expo will be launching in just a few weeks in Seoul as South Korea’s first major cryptocurrency eve...
The Rise and Rise of Lipservice: Viral Western Union Ad Debunked
Last week the /r/Bitcoin community thought they came up with a clever ad (see image) that revealed the “true” costs of remittances. But this is an apple’s to orange’s comparis...
Australian CoinsForTech Launches Bitcoin-Only Marketplace OneWallet.io
Digital currency-only electronics online store CoinsForTech, announces the launch of its Bitcoin shopping portal and wallet: OneWallet....
Pure Gold: Citibank Report says Bitcoin is Fiat Currency
Ahead of Switzerland’s gold referendum this weekend, Citibank has a released a report publicly criticizing both the metal and Bitcoin – with some content being so embarrassing it could be sati...
First Global Credit CEO, Gavin Smith: ‘The Blockchain has the Potential to Take the Stock Exchange to the Next Level’
CoinTelegraph reached out to First Global Credit CEO, Gavin Smith, who recently contributed his own Op-Ed piece about Anonymity vs. Privacy, to get his thoughts on the advantages of trading with bi...
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Bitcoin Foundation’s #TeamHal Fundraiser is Disingenuous (Op-Ed)
The Bitcoin Foundation has announced a fundraiser to give 25 bitcoins to “an organization that is doing great work in finding a cure for ALS.” Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—also known as Lou ...
Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong: Remittance, Micro Transactions Will Be Areas of Focus in 2015
As CoinTelegraph has reported many times, it’s been a busy autumn for Coinbase. Earlier in November, we had a chance to sit down with Brian Armstrong, the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, to get his...
The Ultimate Bitcoin Black Friday Guide
Want to enjoy lavish Black Friday discounts with Bitcoin without the lines, camping out for several days, and the risk of violen...
American Red Cross Now Accepts BTC and Taking Part in 'Bitcoin Black Friday'
The American Red Cross is partnering with leading Bitcoin payment solutions provider BitPay to enable donations in the digital currency. The humanitarian organization said it will be participating...
Is Tim Swanson Right That Bitcoin Hoarding Is Bad?
Numbers blogger Tim Swanson recently used Bitcoin blockchain data graphs generated by John Ratcliff to declare that 70% of existing bitcoins have not been spent in six mont...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
ZDNet’s Ken Hess Attacks Bitcoin as ‘Illegal’
The breaking news on Reddit today is an article by Ken Hess, “reporter” for ZDNet. The Reddit community seems to be in panic mode about Hess’s report that the United States Senate is poised to make...
We are happy to announce, just in time for Giving Tuesday, that the Ronald McDonald House of the Capital Region is the first charity in Upstate NY to accept Bitcoin donations!
PRESS RELEASE – 11/20/14 Albany, New York - Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region is making history by heading down technology lane and becoming the first local charity in Upstate New York to accept Bitcoin donations. They will partner with Bitcoin processing giant BitPay to handle their transactions, and the NY Bitcoin Group...
Blackwave Labs Is Using Blackcoin To Develop Tools For Protesting 2.0
With protests exploding around the world, mesh networks are becoming an increasingly used tool. Blackwave Labs thinks cryptocurrencies can help and they are building the tools to bring about Protes...
Bitcoin Volatility: Are Alt Coins Taming the Beast?
Looking at charts showing the price of bitcoin over time is like looking at a child’s crude attempt to draw the world’s craziest roller-coaster. It has certainly been a wild ride for the brave few early adopters with the courage to hold a significant portion of their money in btc.Since its earliest days, predicting the price of bitcoin next...
Uncoinventional Activist Journalist, Derrick Broze, Powered by Bitcoin
Bitcoin has become a powerful tool for independent activist journalists. In the past, news writers and correspondents would compete for limited professional opportunities with large media networks. The message was highly centralized and filtered from the top.As technology has evolved, it has empowered mass coverage of anti-establishment opinions....
Report ‘Proves’ User IDs Can Be Traced from Anonymous BTC Transactions
A new report by the University of Luxemburg has emerged, saying researchers have “proven” that Bitcoin transactions can be linked to specific IP addresses and user identities tra...
BitcoinEXPO 2015 in London to Focus on Startups and Investors
After the previous successes of the Central European Bitcoin Expo Vienna, the BitcoinExpo 2014 Shanghai, and the Bitcoin 2 Business Congress Brussels, the CryptoEvents team is now bringing you Bitc...
Roger Ver Doubles Donation Match for Antiwar.com to $20K
Roger Ver is an early adopter of Bitcoin and a peace advocate who puts his satoshis where his mouth ...
Library in Ferguson Stays Open amid Riots, Decides to Accept Bitcon
Amid continued civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, its public library is not only staying open to offer shelter to residents – it also started to accept Bitcoin late Tuesd...
Kraken Selected to Aid Mt. Gox Investigation and Liquidation
Kraken has emerged as a major player in the Mt. Gox bankruptcy proceedings, confirming its impending role in an array of various financial support operatio...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Bitcoin Black Friday Is on the Way
“Black Friday” is one of the busiest shopping days in the United States. It is a day of unbridled consumerism on steroids, when people pitch tents and lay sleeping bags in front of retail stores and...
Government: ‘Too big to fail means too big to Jail’ (Op-Ed)
When Federal authorities discovered that the bank HSBC had knowingly laundering money for both drug cartels and terrorists groups, most of the world expected quick indictments to foll...
If You Bought From Silk Road, Coinalytics May Have You Mapped
Coinalytics is a Bitcoin data aggregation service that takes requests for transaction-mapping. They work to identify “clusters” in the blockchain and use them in an attempt to connect real-world id...
Derivatives Exchange Nadex Awaiting for CFTC Approval to Launch Bitcoin Binary Options
The North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex) announces its plans on launching a Bitcoin binary options offering in early December, subject to filing with the CF...
Strevus CEO, Ken Hoang:‘To Ensure Trust in the System, Regulation is Needed’
Ken Hoang is the Chief Executive Officer at Strevus—a provider of compliance lifecycle management solutions for financial services and digital currency fir...
Bitcoin Price Whipsaw: What Can Ichimoku Clouds Tell Us?
The key word of the last week has been whipsaw. This term is applied in trading circles when the price head’s in one direction, and then is quickly followed by a movement in the opposite directi...
Newly Launched BTMs: Two New Lamassus in Montreal and a Robocoin in Bucharest
CoinTelegraph has partnered with 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...
Samsung Electronics President and CSO Young Sohn Joins BitFury's Strategic Advisory Board
Bitcoin infrastructure provider and Bitcoin transaction processing startup BitFury Group adds Samsung Electronics President and Chief Strategy Officer to its strategic advisory boa...
Western Union Sitting Duck in Bitcoin Viral Ads Blunder
Western Union has become the latest target of one of the Internet’s more sophisticated dethroning campaigns – and, it seems, has already lost the battle to contain the consequenc...
Monday, November 24, 2014
UK based Spectrocoin.com links unbanked people to Bitcoin by allowing to withdraw cash in 25 countries around Europe And Central Asia
UK based Spectrocoin.com links unbanked people to Bitcoin by allowing to withdraw cash in 25 countries around Europe And Central Asia London, November 18, 2014. UK Bitcoin service provider SpectroCoin.com this month launched a new feature on its platform to allow clients to withdraw cash in more than 25 countries around the Europe and Central...
Blockchain Factory Is Creating The Tools For Today And Governmental Services For Tomorrow
Nathan Wosnack and David Mondrus left Bitnation amid concerns, now they are back with Blockchain Factory and they want to show you the tools they buildi...
Last Event in Russia? Bitcoin Conference Returning to Saint-Petersburg
Bitcoin Conference is headed to Saint-Petersburg and CoinTelegraph is proud to announce that it will be the official general media sponsor of the eve...
Crypto Next Now Powers 10 Digital Currency Exchanges, Targets 50 by March
Isle of Man-incorporated Bitcoin startup Crypto Next, announces it has signed up 10 digital currency exchanges in only one month after public beta launch of its white label exchange platform. The c...
Bitcoin Liberates People Punished For Using Cash
All are plagued with governments that seek out and punish those who make large purchases in cash. This forces people to either use banks against their preference, or live with the risk of punishme...
Amsterdam Aims to Become Bitcoin Capital of the World
Several countries have tried to become the “Bitcoin Capital of the World” during the last year, and the competition only seems to be growing. The Isle of Man made the attempt, UK banks pulled the ...
EBay CEO ‘Very Open’ to Bitcoin, will ‘Likely’ follow PayPal
EBay.com president Devin Wenig has stated he is “very open” to Bitcoin and that eBay “will probably experiment” with the digital currency in the futu...
Bitcoin Analysis: Week of Nov 23 (Concept Review)
Bitcoin Analysis from Tone Vays on CoinTelegra...
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne: 'My Commitment Isn't to Bitcoin, It Is to the Crypto Revolution'
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne discusses the vulnerabilities of our current financial system, and explains how "blockchain trading" could solve these flaws, at CATO Institute conferen...
New Bitcoin Merchants and Businesses: The Grid, PrivateFly, Flanders University, Ronald McDonald House and More
Despite the continuing mystery on the regulation issues that face the Bitcoin community, many businesses continue to add Bitcoin as a payment option for their custome...
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