Tuesday, December 30, 2014

New BTMs in North America, UK and Australia


The proliferation of BTMs around the world continued last week, even with the Christmas holiday giving billions of us an excuse not to do much work at all.
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Bitreserve Raises US$9.5 Million in Second Largest Crowdfunding Round in the Digital Currency Sector


Bitreserve has become the second largest crowdfunded digital currency company by hitting US$9.5 million in a public Series-B investment round.
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TradeBlock Welcomes New Lead UI Engineer


Jeff Ward has been welcomed as the new lead UI engineer at TradeBlock, where he will be in charge of optimizing human-computer interactions on the TradeBlock Professional platform.
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Bitcoin Analysis: Week of Dec 28 (Year in Review)


Bitcoin Analysis from Tone Vays.
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Monday, December 29, 2014

The Nakamoto Institute's First Podcast Rebuts Buterin's Defense of Competing Cryptocurrencies


Poor cryptocurrency devotees would love to know, are they good investments? Or not? Many believe that a few good soldiers—or maybe many—could endure the storm of investments. But the Satoshi Nakamoto
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Cloud Mining Service Hashie.co Disappears With User Funds, Replaces Site With ARG


Hashie.co was a cloudmining site that claimed to have over 40,000 users. Its owners disappeared and users are missing their funds, but the scammer has stuck around to tease the victims with an Alterna
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Reserve Bank Governor: India “will adopt digital currencies at some point”


The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India has said he has “no doubt” that digital currencies will play a role in India's future society. Drawing a comparison between the rise of debit and credit cards
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Correction: Christmas Price Prediction Contest Winners (Please Read)


A few days ago we announced the winners of CoinTelegraph’s Christmas Price Prediction contest sponsored by Virtex and EgoPay. It has since come to our attention, however, that those named as winners d
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Hyprkey: Almost Unhackable Authentication


A company based out of New York City called HyprKey aims to accomplish a three-factor level of security that credit cards, Apple Pay, CurrentC and Bitcoin haven’t.
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The Federal Reserve Publishes Another Paper on Bitcoin


The Federal Reserve Bank in Washington, D.C. has issued a report entitled Bitcoin: Technical Background and Data Analysis. The recently released report, dated October 7, is a technical analysis of Bit
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Ecuador Officially Launches Its Own E-Money System


Banco Central del Ecuador (BCE) announced it has officially entered into the first phase of the establishment of its own electronic cash system, asking citizens over 18 years old to open an account us
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Coinbase Is Tracking How Users Spend Their Bitcoins


Coinbase has recently been demonstrating why consumer regulation is such a problem.
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