Monday, October 20, 2014

BTC.sx partners with itBit in large-scale Asian expansion plan


UK-based BTC.sx, the world’s first Bitcoin-only trading platform, has announced its partnership and integration with itBit exchange to significantly increase its presence in Asia.
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Newly Launched BTMs: The US Gets 7 New Machines


According to Coin ATM Radar’s data as of Monday, October 20, there are 273 live BTMs around the world, and that number is growing daily (and at an ever-increasing rate). Below are a few that were inst
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Chinese Sfards Targets Mining Industry with World’s First Dual SHA256 and Scrypt Miner


On October 20, Chinese cryptocurrency mining venture Sfards Technology Ltd. announced its ambition in becoming a leader in the industry while officially starting to operate, stated the company in a re
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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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