Saturday, January 31, 2015

5 Reasons to Drop Coinbase Like a Hot Potato (Op-Ed)


Coinbase used to be great. You signed up with an email address, bought bitcoins with dollars, or sold bitcoins for dollars. It was pretty simple. I recommended their service to literally every person
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'Dirty' Bitcoins, Murder-for-Hire Plots Surface in Silk Road Trial (Week 3)


The Silk Road trial is heating up as sittings have entered the third week. Most importantly, the first hints of an alleged murder-for-hire plot are now surfacing, while the Federal prosecutors have ad
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Google Now App Offers Coinbase Support for Android Users


Google has added Coinbase support to their Google Now app, enabling Android users to receive updates about Bitcoin price fluctuations and other information about their Coinbase accounts in a card via
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Friday, January 30, 2015

The Bitcoin Super Bowl Betting Guide


In the United States, the Super Bowl might as well be a de facto gambling holiday. According to the American Gaming Association almost US$4 billion will be gambled on this Sunday’s game between the Ne
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'Lower Bitcoin Prices are More in Favor for Bad Actors and Ponzi Schemes’


Genesis Mining has grown quickly amidst a rapidly-expanding cloudmining market in to become one of the scrypt mining leaders in 2014.
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Rumors Swirling around Robocoin’s Hardware Exit, Major Restructure


Network issues at Robocoin, which affected its BTM network yesterday, have led to rumors of more serious problems with the company, it has emerged.
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Bitcoin Top News WrapUp: Silk Road Trial, ISIS, Cointerra Bankruptcy and more


CoinTelegraph’s news roundup for Thursday, January 29.
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The ‘Age of Cryptocurrency’ Book: Two Outsiders Look In at Bitcoin and Digital Money


Adam B. Levine calls “The Age of Cryptocurrency” by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey “a very positive book about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.”
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Gatecoin Launches Bitcoin Exchange with ‘Segregated Bank Accounts’


Honk-Kong based Gatecoin Limited launches new Bitcoin exchange with "bank-grade security measures," including segregated client bank accounts, multi-signature cold storage, as well as continuous monit
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Reddit Suddenly Drops Redditcoin, Fires Chief Developer


Former BitPay engineer Ryan X. Charles, until yesterday a chief developer of Reddit’s Redditcoin cryptocurrency, has been let go from his position amid a U-turn by the resource.
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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Dread Pirate Roberts: Imprisonment vs. Innovation (Op-Ed)


A young man named Ross Ulbricht sits on trial facing life in prison. His alleged crime: building and running a website, which enabled anonymous trade of all kinds of goods, particularly illegal ones.
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