Multi-function crossover ATM operator Planet Capital has announced that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is joining its board as an advisor and directo...
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Seals With Clubs Operator Charged, Launches Defense Fund
Bryan Micon, operator of the closed down bitcoin-fueled poker site Seals With Clubs, has been charged by the Nevada Attorney General with operating an unlicensed gambling enterpris...
Chamber of Digital Commerce Hosts AML Compliance Boot Camp in New York Today
The Chamber of Digital Commerce will hold a two-day anti-money laundering (AML) compliance boot camp for bankers, regulators and digital currency companies. The event will be in New York City from April 30 to May 1, with an optional workshop on May 2.
The topic of compliance and regulations is a tough one for Bitcoin companies. AML Know-Your-Customer...
XBT Provider Announces Bitcoin Tracker One, the First Bitcoin-based Security Traded on Nasdaq Stockholm
XBT Provider AB announced today the authorization of Bitcoin Tracker One, the first bitcoin-based security available on a regulated exchange, Bloomberg reports.
Bitcoin Tracker One is an “Exchange Traded Note” (ETN) designed to provide investors with convenient access to the returns of the underlying asset, U.S. dollar (USD) per bitcoin,...
MonetaGo Launches with Goal to Provide Liquidity to Global Bitcoin Exchanges
Named after an ancient Roman Goddess, MonetaGo is looking to provide liquidity to Bitcoin exchanges in 35 countries around the world, with the goal to expand to 50 by the end of the year.
“We want to be the umbrella to the other exchanges,” Margaux Avedisian, co-founder and business development officer, told Bitcoin Magazine at Inside...
Bitcoin-friendly Fidor Bank Expands to the United Kingdom
Fidor Bank, the innovative German bank that is bringing Bitcoin and digital fintech to mainstream banking, is now operating in Great Britain.
Fidor Bank, one of the world’s most innovative banks disrupting the traditional banking sector, has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a “Global Growth Company.”
Founded in Germany in 2009,...
Bitcoin’s Secret Function: Dollar Cost Averaging (Op-Ed)
Most people have no idea what their average cost per coin is and without knowing your cost, how can you make educated financial decision...
APR 30 DIGEST: Goldman Sachs Joins US$50m Investment Round in Circle, Fidor to Open in UK
Goldman Sachs has joined a round of funding for Circle, Purse.io has integrated with Shapeshift.io, SilkRoad trial judge rejects retrial demand and more new...
Tutanota Provides Stupid-Easy Email Encryption
I know many of you have no issue encrypting emails with PGP — no confusion copying and importing others' keys. No trouble remembering to back up your private keys when you switch to a new compute...
CleverCoin Becomes First European Exchange to Offer Leveraged Trading
Dutch Bitcoin exhange CleverCoin introduced leveraged trading this week, making it the first European exchange to offer this trading optio...
US Crowdfunding Deregulation Opens the Gates for Crypto-Equity
New U.S. SEC Regulation A+ rules regarding equity crowdfunding coming to effect at the end of May 2015 are set to open the gates for crypto-equity and small business crowdfunding, no investor accred...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The Rise And Rise Of CoinTelegraph: An Interview with Business Development Director Victoria Vaughan
In the space of little more than one short year, CoinTelegraph has risen to become one of the leading names – and major brands – in cryptocurrency media. How did it happe...
Maxim Group Bids $1.7M for GBTC Shares
Investors are increasing the pressure to acquire shares of the Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC) with a bid for 5,000 at $35 per share by the Maxim Group. Self-described as a full-service investment bank and wealth management firm, Maxim has taken the most aggressive approach as of yet to get investors in GBTC to sell their shares.
In the...
Coinbase Expands its Services to United Kingdom
Coinbase announced the expansion of Coinbase services to the United Kingdom, including the ability to trade bitcoin on the Coinbase Exchange and to buy/sell bitcoin with British pounds (GBP) using the Coinbase Wallet, and the addition of BTC/GBP and BTC/EUR currency pairs on Coinbase Exchange for U.K. users.
Besides the United Kingdom, Coinbase...
Bitcoin Shop (BTCS) to Merge with Spondoolies-Tech to Create a Publicly Traded Bitcoin Mining Company
Bitcoin Shop, one of the first Bitcoin companies quoted on the U.S. stock market, announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent to merge with Israeli Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer Spondoolies-Tech. The Letter of Intent follows last week’s announcement that Bitcoin Shop raised $2.3 million in a venture capital funding round.
Bitcoin...
This Firefox Plug-In Lets You Easily Surf the Dot-Bit Web
FreeSpeechMe is a free and open-source browser plug-in that lets Firefox users do what was previously rather difficult to achieve: surf dot-bit (.bit) domain...
KNC’s XBT Provider Launches First Ever Bitcoin Exchange Traded Note on Swedish NASDAQ
Announcing the launch of a financial product called “Bitcoin Tracker One”, XBT Provider has created the world's first regulated Bitcoin exchange-traded not...
APR 29 DIGEST: Bitcoin Startup Wins Deloitte Tech Competition, Coinbase Comes to the UK
Bitcoin startup TransferB wins the 2015 Deloitte Top Technology Talent Competition, New York Times reporter announces new book on Bitcoin, Coinbase expands to the UK, and more new...
Western Union ‘Capitulates’ to Crypto with Ripple Labs Partnership
In an unexpected partnership for a cryptocurrency business, Ripple has announced a partnership with fiat-based money transfer operator Western Unio...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Overstock Files Crypto Stock Exchange Prospectus with the SEC
The Salt Lake City-based online retailer Overstock is working on a revolutionary new development: a new independent stock exchange powered by Bitcoin technology. The new stock exchange could sidestep traditional stock exchanges such as NYSE and NASDAQ and issue corporate stock directly over the Internet.
Overstock, one of the first and largest...
Make an Impact: Donate Bitcoin to Projects on the Ground in Nepal
This is a guest post by Elizabeth Ploshay, Connie Gallippi, Victoria van Eyk, and Sarah Martin.
Last week, Nepal was hit with a magnitude 7.8 earthquake – the worst in 80 years. More than 4,000 people died, and hundreds more are without food, water or shelter.
Natural disasters shake not just the core of our communities, but also the...
Three Easy Ways to Enhance Your Online Privacy (Op-Ed)
As the Internet has exploded with information sharing, it has diluted the privacy that we cherish in our offline lives. Here are three apps that can help you bring privacy to your online lif...
Leaked Chainalysis Roadmap Angers Bitcoin Community
Chainalysis offers a service that provides financial institutions with the means to obtain regulatory compliance through real-time analysis of the blockchain. Based in Switzerland and headed by ex-Kraken COO Michael Grønager and former Mycelium engineer Jan Møller, the company provides an API for sophisticated in-depth real-time blockchain...
itBit Files for Banking License in New York
Bitcoin exchange itBit has filed for a banking license in New York, Reuters reports. Approval for the license may come in the next couple of weeks, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. That could make itBit the first Bitcoin company to be regulated as a bank in the United States.
Founded in 2012, itBit has offices in two key financial...
Singaporean Bitcoin Exchange CoinHako Insures Holdings Through BitGo Partnership
Singaporean-based Bitcoin exchange, CoinHako, has integrated the BitGo digital currency security platform and insurance offering and will now be run with multi-signature wallets and a state-of-the-art platform, and their holdings will be insured against theft and hacks.
The insurance offering is through an undisclosed A-rated insurer from...
On The Road with the Bitcoin Bus: The Bit Mom’s Journal (Part 5)
Catherine Bleish on her family’s “Uncoinventional Bitcoin Bus Tour” across the USA. The self-styled “Blush Family” - John and Catherine Bleish and their two children traveled from Philadelphia to Te...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Range Bound Within Continuous Downtrend (Week of APR 26)
Bitcoin Price Analysis from CoinTelegra...
APRIL 28 DIGEST: Silk Road Judge Denies Retrial and Richard Branson Will Host Bitcoin Summit on Private Island
The judge in the Silk Road trial denied a motion from Ross Ulbricht’s defense for a new trial despite federal agents’ alleged corruption, Richard Branson will organize a summit to discuss Bitcoin a...
CoinTelegraph Launches BTC Relief Fund for Nepal Earthquake Victims
CoinTelegraph is calling for the digital currency community to come together and join our relief effort for victims of the recent Nepali earthquak...
Native Startup Offers Crypto Remittance Service to Nigerians
Bitstake, a cryptocurrency exchange startup, offers a wide range of solutions to the 178 million people of Nigeri...
Wall Street Left Out in Overstock's US$500M Stocks Issue
Online retailer Overstock has filed for permission to issue US$500m in stocks using distributed blockchain technolog...
Monday, April 27, 2015
Seven Cities Leading Bitcoin Adoption in 2015
The number of Bitcoin merchants has risen, the value of Bitcoin startups has increased and most importantly, awareness of Bitcoin has increased in countries with poor banking or financial system...
Canada Takes a Careful, Community-driven Approach to Bitcoin Regulation
Like many other countries, Canada has been wrestling with the issue of whether to regulate digital currencies and, if so, how and to what extent.
In it’s February 2014 budget, the Canadian government introduced and passed amendments to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act of 2000, aimed at digital currencies.
But...
Coin Center Issues a Flexible Template for Bitcoin Regulation
Last week, lead Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen and other Bitcoin Core developers joined the recently established MIT Digital Currency Initiative. This was widely interpreted as an MIT takeover of the roles of leadership, funding and co-ordination of Bitcoin technical development, previously claimed by the Bitcoin Foundation. In parallel,...
Lawnmower Invests Users’ Spare Change to Purchase Bitcoin
the Boost VC-backed Bitcoin startup Lawnmower tracks purchases on a user’s account, rounds them up to the nearest dollar to create spare change, and uses the change to purchase bitcoin on behalf of the user. The bitcoin purchased by Lawnmower will be deposited to a Bitcoin wallet of a user’s choice.
The minimum threshold for...
Augur Answers Tough Questions with its Blockchain-based Prediction Markets
Let’s ask a tough question: Will Hillary Clinton become president of the United States in 2016?
If you had people “bet” on the topic, and monetarily rewarded the ones who guessed correctly, you can actually get a good idea whether Hillary Clinton will become the head of state. A better idea, in fact, than virtually any alleged “expert”...
Winner of ‘Brand me Crypto’ Campaign Announced
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA & CALGARY, ALBERTA – APRIL 27, 2015 – Cryptocurrency risk management and payment processing specialist Vogogo Inc. announced the winner of Brand Me Crypto, an initiative, conceptualized and sponsored by the company, its aim, to have global members of the crypto and creative community create an iconic brand to...
Bitcoin Conference Prague Planned for May 2015
Bitcoin Conference is going to make a mash on Europe. Meet the conference dedicated to the currency of the future in Prague!
Everyone has heard about a mysterious currency Bitcoin, but maybe not everyone knows where and what you can spend it on.
The world we live in does not tolerate inertness; it is in a constant process of movement and...
Ukraine Central Bank Review: PayPal, Bitcoin should appear on market, says Analyst
The National Bank of Ukraine held a meeting last week to discuss ways of "[improving] the performance of international payment systems in Ukraine" and easing up regulatory constraints for new market...
Caribbean’s First Bitcoin Exchange CEO: ‘Our Biggest Difficulty Is an Uninformed Government’
Bitt, the Caribbean's first bitcoin exchange company, is looking to tap the region’s potential for remittances and banking services by providing faster and cheaper payments using bitcoi...
APR 27 DIGEST: Record VC Investment in Bitcoin's Q1, Cryptsy Accused of GAW Involvement
Bitcoin has received record investment funding in Q1 of 2015. SpeedyBitcoins.co.uk has ceased trading indefinitely after losing their banking provider. Cryptsy has been accused of involvement with G...
On The Road with the Bitcoin Bus: The Bit Mom’s Journal (Part 4)
Catherine Bleish on her family’s “Uncoinventional Bitcoin Bus Tour” across the USA. The self-styled “Blush Family” - John and Catherine Bleish and their two children traveled from Philadelphia to Te...
Mimetic Markets Releases Source Code of Bitcoin Exchange Platform
Mimetic Markets announced today it has released the source code of its Sputnik Exchange Engine in an attempt to democratize Bitcoin exchanges and motivate developers in contributing to software deve...
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Satoshi Broke Software Barriers, ‘Now Everyone Is Doing It’
Chris Mountford is a senior software developer at Atlassian and one of the company’s earliest employees. For those who don’t know Atlassian, it is one of Australia’s great success storie...
Bitcoin: A Target Without an Army to Defend It (Op-Ed)
In the event of an attack, who would defend Bitcoin? The fast answer would be its users—a distributed collective of like-minded individuals. But would they be enoug...
Bitcoin ‘May Not Rely on Trust, but Our Members Must Foster Trust to Be Successful’
CoinTelegraph correspondent Dan Simon had the opportunity to speak with David Berger, CEO and founder of the Digital Currency Counci...
Dash Proposes Decentralized, Anonymous and Sustainable Funding Structure
Dash wants to use part of the block reward to fund development initiatives and give control of those funds to the Masternode network as a grou...
On the Road with the Bitcoin Bus: The Bit Mom’s Journal (Part 3)
Catherine Bleish on her family’s “Uncoinventional Bitcoin Bus Tour” across the USA. The self-styled “Blush Family” - John and Catherine Bleish and their two children traveled from Philadelphia to Te...
Weekend Roundup: MIT Takes Over Bitcoin Core Dev Funding, Blocktech Announces P2P, Decentralized Library
Weekend Roundup fro CoinTelegrap...
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Bitcoin Is Not A Sprint, It's A Marathon (Op-Ed)
The first time I heard about Bitcoin I wasn't very impressed. As an anarchist with an Austrian economic background, it didn't make much sense to me right awa...
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