Monday, November 17, 2014

A Hack Free Internet? IAB Motions to Encrypt All The Things


A major standard-setting body has called for all Internet applications to be encrypted by default. Heeding this advice would make it difficult for unauthorized parties to scoop up data.
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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Decentralizing Sex: Cindy Gallop Makes Love Not Porn


Cindy Gallop is the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn, a site dedicated to establishing the difference between porn and “real world” sex, while further enabling people to share and profit from their own love
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Weekend Roundup: Bitcoin Processing for SMEs, The Counterparty/Ethereum Partnership, and Ukraine Takes a Stance on Digital Currencies


New weekend roundup from CoinTelegraph
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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Nordea, Other Swedish Banks Closing Bitcoin Companies’


Gustav Nipe of New Technology Today indicated that the Swedish banking system is extremely resistant to new technologies, despite the many problems that it has been experiencing, such as the policy of
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'Instead of Using KYC, We Prefer to Use Our Own Model: TYC (Trust Your Customer)’ - Bitcoin-Wave CCO, G. Heni


G. Heni is Chief Communication Officer at the newly launched French Bitcoin exchange Bitcoin-Wave. In an interview with CoinTelegraph, the executive shares his company incentives and motivations, and
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Gavin Andresen, Bitcoin Redeemer (Op-Ed)


In a November 6 interview in Dublin, Ireland, recorded at this year’s Web Summit, Gavin Andresen called Bitcoin “shady.”
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OneName Raises Seed Funding to Fuel Decentralized Identity Protocol


Now an open-source identity protocol provider called OneName is attempting to extend more open source software in an attempt to disrupt the current online authentication process.
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Epicenter Bitcoin Ep 52: Factom Aims to Enable Trustless Appli-cations


Epicenter Bitcoin Ep 52
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Friday, November 14, 2014

What Ban? Russia’s VK.com is Mining Bitcoin


As of January 2014, VK.com had at least 239 million accounts. VK is ranked 8th (as of August 1, 2014) in Alexa's global Top 500 sites and is the 2nd most visited website in Russia, after Yandex.
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Ichimoku Reversal: How to Ride the Bitcoin Bull


Well the signal came in super bullish fashion. One big candle on high volume pierced through the entire cloud and into bullish territory. As a rule, a piercing of the cloud is followed by some muddlin
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Bit-Curious? Bank of Canada Flirts with Bitcoin despite ‘New Risks’ to Status Quo


On November 13, Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins gave a speech at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, on 'Money in a Digital World,' where she tackled the topic of 'e
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Darknet Hackers Retake Control of Seized Doxbin from FBI


The war between authorities and Dark Net website operators seems to be heating up after the announcement today that at least one website, the well-known Doxbin, has been taken back from the control of
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