Coinbase used to be great. You signed up with an email address, bought bitcoins with dollars, or sold bitcoins for dollars. It was pretty simple. I recommended their service to literally every per...
Saturday, January 31, 2015
'Dirty' Bitcoins, Murder-for-Hire Plots Surface in Silk Road Trial (Week 3)
The Silk Road trial is heating up as sittings have entered the third week. Most importantly, the first hints of an alleged murder-for-hire plot are now surfacing, while the Federal prosecutors have...
Google Now App Offers Coinbase Support for Android Users
Google has added Coinbase support to their Google Now app, enabling Android users to receive updates about Bitcoin price fluctuations and other information about their Coinbase accounts in a card ...
Friday, January 30, 2015
The Bitcoin Super Bowl Betting Guide
In the United States, the Super Bowl might as well be a de facto gambling holiday. According to the American Gaming Association almost US$4 billion will be gambled on this Sunday’s game between the...
'Lower Bitcoin Prices are More in Favor for Bad Actors and Ponzi Schemes’
Genesis Mining has grown quickly amidst a rapidly-expanding cloudmining market in to become one of the scrypt mining leaders in 20...
Rumors Swirling around Robocoin’s Hardware Exit, Major Restructure
Network issues at Robocoin, which affected its BTM network yesterday, have led to rumors of more serious problems with the company, it has emerg...
Bitcoin Top News WrapUp: Silk Road Trial, ISIS, Cointerra Bankruptcy and more
CoinTelegraph’s news roundup for Thursday, January ...
The ‘Age of Cryptocurrency’ Book: Two Outsiders Look In at Bitcoin and Digital Money
Adam B. Levine calls “The Age of Cryptocurrency” by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey “a very positive book about Bitcoin and cryptocurrenc...
Gatecoin Launches Bitcoin Exchange with ‘Segregated Bank Accounts’
Honk-Kong based Gatecoin Limited launches new Bitcoin exchange with "bank-grade security measures," including segregated client bank accounts, multi-signature cold storage, as well as continuous mo...
Reddit Suddenly Drops Redditcoin, Fires Chief Developer
Former BitPay engineer Ryan X. Charles, until yesterday a chief developer of Reddit’s Redditcoin cryptocurrency, has been let go from his position amid a U-turn by the resour...
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Dread Pirate Roberts: Imprisonment vs. Innovation (Op-Ed)
A young man named Ross Ulbricht sits on trial facing life in prison. His alleged crime: building and running a website, which enabled anonymous trade of all kinds of goods, particularly illegal on...
Cointerra Files for Bankruptcy With Up to 999 Creditors Owed
Mining computer designer and cloud mining operation Cointerra files for bankruptcy, leaving debts up to 50 million USD and potentially 999 creditors unpaid. The Bitcoin mining sector is now in dire...
Israeli Paper Ties Bitcoin to ISIS, Again (Op-Ed)
Israeli web analyst claims that Islamic State is continuing to use Bitcoin as a means of funding. But the evidence he quotes is not enough to point at a trend as the amount mentioned was only 5 BTC....
Wednesday's Top News: Bitcoin Giveaway, 'Risk Free' Wallet, Venture Capital and More
Alleged theft attempt, BTC giveaway, Amsterdam hackathon, upcoming Bitcoin Fun Fair, and other events in CoinTelegraph’s news roundup for Wednesday, January...
Consumer Alert: Coinbase Exchange ‘Not Regulated or Licensed’ in California, NY
Coinbase, which announced earlier this week it had launched the first regulated Bitcoin exchange in several states and territories of America, including California and New York, seems to be lacking...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Nitrogen Sports Will Have Live Betting For SuperBowl, Blackjack Also Launches
Nitrogen Sports is working on a live betting platform. While that is not launching yet, they will be offering live betting for the Super Bowl. Blackjack has also launched on the site, making it the...
Artist Open-Sources Work for Bitcoin; IP Advocates Stumped
In a move that has left intellectual “property” (IP) advocates completely dumbfounded, artist and redditor obilex recently released not one, but eight high-resolution original works of art on Redd...
Bitcoin Being Given Away To College Students, Again
Montreal's Bitcoin Embassy will be giving bitcoin to 600 Students attending McGill University, also in Montreal. The amount is significantly lower, compared to the MIT project, down to 30 mBTC or r...
Amsterdam Bitcoin Hackathon Winner Discovers Way To Remove Confirmations
If bitcoin is meant to be the perfect money for the internet, one important property seems to be lacking: instant, secure, and trustless transactions. But the winning team of the first ever Amster...
How Bitcoin Will Achieve Mass Acceptance (Op-Ed)
What will be the impetus of Bitcoin mass acceptance? There are basically three schools of thought on this topic, Merchant Adoption, Third World Unbanked, and Wall Street Investme...
Greece’s New Finance Minister: Bitcoin ‘Highly Problematic Currency’
The Finance Minister of Greece’s new radical left-wing government, while at the center of anti-austerity financial policy, is in no way optimistic about Bitcoin, it has emerg...
Chinese Exchange Suffers 1,000 BTC Loss in Uncertain Service Compromise
Reports are emerging of Chinese Bitcoin exchange 796 mistakenly losing 1000BTC of customer funds in a botched customer service reque...
World's Biggest Consumer-Oriented Bitcoin Event Coming to Stockholm
Bitcoin Fun Fair is not your typical Bitcoin meetup or conference event where businesses and experts talk, “network” and exchange business car...
‘Forcing Bitcoin into the Regulated Environment’: Interview with Digital Securities Exchange
In the wake of Coinbase unveiling the US’s first licensed Bitcoin exchange, across the water in the UK, another operation is adopting a different, but no less official, approa...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
LazyCoins to Preview The Killer Bitcoin App LazyPay at BitcoinExpo 2015 London
London, January 24, 2015 — LazyCoins demoed their killer Bitcoin app LazyPay at the BitcoinExpo 2015 in London last weekend. The company has spent months carefully and quietly planning to take the app public. Including running the payment and merchant services app through testing with a security firm. And holding Q&As in order to perfect...
Monday, January 26, 2015
Coinding Launches Bitcoin Gaming Hackathon
Coinding is launching a hackathon contest that focuses on putting Bitcoin into gami...
Blockchain AI: 5 Top Reasons the Blockchain will Deliver Friendly AI
In recent news, Elon Musk and Steven Hawking reportedly foresee a potentially dangerous future in the advancement of AI (artificial intelligenc...
Can Cryptosigma do for Consumers What BitPay did for Bitcoin Merchants?
Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange Cryptosigma has developed multi-signature desktop and mobile wallets that are set to ease users’ fears common at this stage of development in cryptocurrency. Many c...
Latest DarkWallet Release Enables cash Withdrawals from Thousands of Spanish ATM's
DarkWallet is inching another step closer to its first beta version, as it has released its eighth and – probably - final alpha version this past week. Most notably, this newest edition of the anon...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Week of Jan 26 (Spotting a Trend Change)
Bitcoin Analysis from CoinTelegra...
Coinbase’s Licensed Exchange Sends Price Rocketing, But At What Cost?
The price of a Bitcoin is trending upwards once again in light of an announcement by US-based processor Coinbase that it will launch the first licensed Bitcoin exchange tod...
How to Get a Job in Bitcoin
So you want a job in Bitcoin? Or Dogecoin or Darkcoin or ATOMIC? Disclosure: as someone who has a job in cryptocurrency, I give you my congratulations. Joining the future sooner than later is a sm...
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Exploring the Bitcoin Lifestyle on Our Six-Week Holiday Road Trip
This past Thanksgiving, our family put the Bitcoin-travel economy to the test. We spent three weeks living on bitcoin only, as we explored ten states in our family miniv...
Paymium to 'Consolidate Its Position As a European Leader' for 2015
Following this week's announcement of Paymium's partnership with leading POS payment terminals manufacturer Ingenico Group, Paymium CEO and co-founder Gonzague Grandval, said similar initiatives and...
Weekend Roundup: 75 Million Reasons Coinbase is Winning and Braintree’s BTC Payments Now Open in Beta
Bitcoin Weekend Roundup from CoinTelegra...
CoIntellect at BitcoinExpo 2015, COO: ‘Cloud Hashing is the Foundation of the Cryptocurrency Industry’
Yesterday January 24 was the first day of BitcoinExpo 2015 in London. The mining sponsor of this free-to-attend event is CoIntellect, a cloud hashing (mining) service provider, which has seen its ...
Saturday, January 24, 2015
ziftrCOIN's Presale Ends Today After Attracted Organic and VC Investments Totaling US$860,000, CT Competition to Win a Portion Still On!
ziftrCOIN enters the final few hours of a presale round that ends tonight at midnight G...
Reflections on 2014 and the People, Places and Companies Who Championed the Year
Earlier this month, CoinTelegraph readers voted to choose the people, places and companies who deserved the most recognition for their achievements in our 2014 Bitcoin Industry Awards. After the vo...
2015 International Virtual Crypto Summit announced
Following the success of the 2014 Crypto Money Virtual Expo, a new international summit announced to bring together crypto enthusiasts, start-ups, and experts. Global attendance expected, and as Ge...
USD Drops 12% Against Bitcoin: Is the Dollar Dying? (Op-Ed)
As predicted, 2015 has seen the continued fall in value of the currency that was supposed to fuel an advanced economy. In the last 3 days alone, it has lost 12% in value against Bitco...
Friday, January 23, 2015
A Disastrous Week for Ulbricht as Silk Road Trial Continues (Week 2 Roundup)
As sittings on the Silk Road trial entered the second week, federal prosecutors presented a pile of evidence detailing the early days of the iconic digital black mark...
CoinFire Site and Twitter Account Hacked
CoinFire’s executive editor announced just after 2 p.m. EST on Friday that the site’s domain “was stolen” and that the team was trying to get it ba...
BitPay Heads To Washington, D.C.
BitPay—one of, if not the world's largest Bitcoin payment processor—is heading to Capitol Hill with the Treasury Department in its sigh...
Ripple Adds Former White House Economic Adviser
Ripple has added Gene Sperling to their Board of Directors, according to a press release emailed to Cointelegraph by Ripplela...
NXTpit.ch: Dragons Den of Cryptocurrencies
NXT’s subreddit was graced recently with a pitch that few entrepreneurs would turn do...
Hong Kong-Based Startup Bitspark Announced End-to-End Cash Remittance Service to Indonesia
Bitspark Limited, a digital currency startup based in Hong Kong, announces a partnership with Indonesian startup PT ArtaBit Indonesia to enable end-to-end remittance services from Hong Kong to Indo...
Patrick Byrne on the Upcoming Crypto Stock Market: ‘It's a Threat to the Oligarchy’
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has long criticized Wall Street, calling the system “rigged.” He announced at Inside Bitcoins in Las Vegas that he was going to do something about ...
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