Monday, October 20, 2014

Bitcoin Payments Company Bitnet Raises $14MM Funding Round


Not even a year old, San Francisco Bitcoin payment processing platform Bitnet announced on October 20th that it had closed a Series A funding round worth US$14 million.
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Bitstamp: Unverified Bitcoin Accounts at Risk as Deadline Looms


Bitstamp, one of the largest exchanges in the world that deals with US dollars, is taking the customer ID verification requirement very seriously and has warned its users to complete the process or fa
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Bitcoin Analysis: Week of Oct 19 (Intro to MACD)


The week of October 19th Bitcoin Analysis by Tone Vays.
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Sunday, October 19, 2014

Building Latvia’s BTC Community: CoinTelegraph Hosts the October Riga Bitcoin Meetup


On October 16, CoinTelegraph hosted this month’s event of the Riga Bitcoin Meetup group at our head office.
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La’Zooz: The Decentralized Proof-of-Movement ‘Uber’ Unveiled


Taxi unions have unleashed oppression on ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft around the world. Now it seems that they’ve brought upon themselves the same fate that Hollywood eventually met when
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Weekend Roundup: Trouble at Bitnation and Dropbox, Promising Projects in Pakistan and the Philippines


New Weekend Roundup from CoinTelegraph
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Zenbox Becomes World’s Largest Bitcoin Kiosk Network in Just a Few Months - Interview with CEO, Cailen Sullivan


This week, we had the opportunity to talk with Cailen Sullivan, CEO and co-founder of ZenBox, the largest BTM (Bitcoin automatic teller machine) operator and distributor in the world. We asked Cailen
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Saturday, October 18, 2014

Op-Ed: Why We Need Decentralized Due Diligence


The recent happenings around BitNation illustrate how simply creating a coin and starting a crowdsale is not enough. We need due diligence around projects and an engagement mechanism that ensures that
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One Step Further Toward Russian Bitcoin Ban


Russian Deputy Finance Minister Aleksey Moiseev informed a reporter that the Russian government would be banning Bitcoin within one year. That was in September, only a month ago, and it seems that the
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First Ever Parking Ticket Paid with Bitcoin


Brawker is looking to expand the playing field for Bitcoin by becoming the first online marketplace that allows users to quite literally buy anything online. Customers also have the option to use a cr
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Tickets for First “Bitcoin Bowl” Now on Sale


The new site is also providing information about the game, especially for fans that are traveling to the game from other areas,news about the game itself and, as the season progresses, the teams that
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Friday, October 17, 2014

Award-Winning Czech Artist Collective Ztohoven Opens Hacker Space 'Paralelní Polis' in Prague


Award-winning Czech guerrilla artist collective Ztohoven, opens up the Paralelní Polis in Holešovice, a space serving as a hacker space, a hub, with a Bitcoin-only coffee shop.
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