Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Bytecent’s Solution to Proof-of-Work Woes: Make Miners Less Efficient


And a new currency launched just last month, Bytecent, utilizes a kind of proof-of-work mining, but its developers have decided to try to prevent centralization by making miners manually attend to the
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Bank Supervisory Group Unveils BitLicense-esque National Regulation


The US Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) has produced a draft framework for its idea of digital currency regulation, and is now taking 60 days’ worth of public comments.
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Author Walter Isaacson: ‘Bitcoin Would Revive Journalism and Do Many Other Things’


When Walter Isaacson argued that Bitcoin could pave the way for mobile payments in 2015, an anchor laughed.
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Libertarians: ‘Bitcoin’s Biggest Threat’?


On December 9, investment writer Martin Tiller wrote for NASDAQ that the biggest danger to Bitcoin comes from libertarians who will “hurt the very cause that they are championing.”
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Blockchain.info Asking for User Passwords


Whenever we do any type of business on the internet we receive a warning that our passwords will never be requested in an email. The reason for this is simple: Scammers often pose as legitimate busine
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Magazine Giant Time, Inc. Begins Accepting Bitcoin Payments for Four Publications


In a pair of statements that went out simultaneously Tuesday, Time, Inc. and Coinbase announced a partnership that will allow the magazine publication company to accept bitcoin payments.
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Bitcoin Virtual Expo 2015: The Revolution Will Not Be Centralized


Thanks to Bitcoin, the world of economies and transactions are undergoing a revolution never seen before. And it is precisely at the Virtual Expo 2015 that Bitcoin brings together, for the first time
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MIT Offers Cryptocurrency Course Modules for Fall Semester


Bitcoin has a large presence on and off, the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This makes sense when we consider that this is one of the finest technical colleges in the world. The
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LeWeb 2014: Fred Wilson Still Bullish on Bitcoin


Each year, some of the world's best visionaries, entrepreneurs and startups, come to LeWeb's annual conference to talk all things tech. This year, the event took place in Paris, at Eurosites Les Docks
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Christmas Gift Ideas for the Bitcoin Lovers


Even thought the price is lower than it was at this time of year last year, the opportunities to show how far Bitcoin has come in the last few years have never been greater. Everyone was making fun of
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Nxt Wants to Be a Digital Infrastructure of Everything


Well, almost everything. Joining the ranks of Ethereum and MaidSafe as hopefuls to decentralize the software part of the Internet, Nxt has at least one leg-up over either of those protocols: it’s alre
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New BTMs: Warsaw Catching Up to Other EU Capitals, Plus 4 New Machines Across US


As part of CoinTelegraph’s partnership with Coin ATM Radar and its extensive coverage of the world’s network of Bitcoin ATMs, we’re taking a look again this week at some BTMs that went live recently.
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