Sunday, January 4, 2015

LazyCoins Launching LazyPay Mobile Wallet and Merchant App for the Point-of-Sale Bitcoin Market


UK-based altcoin exchange LazyCoins has announced they are relaunching their online exchange, along with a mobile app for payments and merchant services.
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How the Government Is “Hacking” Tor (Op-Ed)


There has been a lot of news lately about websites and nodes that operate on the Tor network have been compromised by various governmental police agencies.
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Weekend Roundup: Snowden Accepting Bitcoins, Ecuador’s Digital Money Launches, and ChangeTip Rolling Out Facebook Support


Weekend Roundup from CoinTelegraph.
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Saturday, January 3, 2015

Police Suspect Mt. Gox Inside Job


After nearly a year of investigations, Japanese police are saying that the missing Mt. Gox Bitcoin vanished due to someone with inside knowledge of the system.
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Chat Logs Allegedly Show Bter Creating and Pumping Its Own Coin


Chatlogs seem to show Bter artificially pumped Bitbay's ICO, a coin it created, with a known and admitted pump and dump group.
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ISG Now Accepts Cryptocurrency for 3D Printers and Related Services


Online 3D printing store ISG has announced it has started accepting Bitcoin and Cannabiscoin as payment methods on its website, combining two disruptive technologies into one purchasing experience.
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MaidSafe Founder Seeks Monopoly on ‘Distributed Network System’


MaidSafe founder David Irvine asked the U.S. government in June 2014 to create and enforce a monopoly on his behalf. On January 1 of this year, the U.S. government agreed to do so. The monopolistic gr
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Friday, January 2, 2015

Bitcoin Becomes Legal Tender for Transactions in California


Bitcoin can be accepted and used for transactions in the US state of California as of yesterday, following the ratification of a new finance bill. Previously, only US Dollars were officially recognize
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Manhattan Community Board Bans Bitcoin Block Party


The City of New York is following the same path as the state in trying to use regulation to push Bitcoin into obscurity. A Manhattan Community Board ruled that a Bitcoin decentralization block party w
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ChangeTip Adding Facebook And Slack


ChangeTip is adding Facebook and Slack to its suite of Social Media apps, but they aren't quite ready for primetime, yet.
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Study: How Bitcoin Could Transform Personal Insurance


A new paper explores how Bitcoin could transform the way we manage personal life insurance. Namely, the blockchain could provide a global, secure and public record of personal health information.
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BitOasis Aims to Change how People Transact in the Middle East Using Bitco


Bitcoin can offer many solutions to the Middle East, from fostering youth entrepreneurship to enabling farmers to receive loans in the digital currency, says BitOasis' Ola Doudin.
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