Monday, March 9, 2015

Bitcoin As a Hedge Against Economic Uncertainty (Op-Ed)


Even though we may make the argument bitcoin is a poor store of wealth, as some have recently contested, could it simultaneously be a valid hedge against economic uncertainty?
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Win Five Bitcoins with CoinTelegraph and Share The Bitcoin


With a service based around the idea earning Bitcoins by telling new people about the world of digital currency, Share The Bitcoin has been expanding the user base of Bitcoin itself since its arrival
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MAR 9 DIGEST: uTorrent pulls Litecoin miner, 10,000 Spanish ATMs accept Bitcoin


µTorrent has pulled a controversial LiteCoin mining program from its latest update to the popular torrenting client in face of strong protests. 10,000 Spanish ATMs will now pay out Euros in exchange f
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Utah Bitcoin Bill Passes Senate Reading, 2 Votes Away from Law


A bill aimed at getting the state of Utah to accept bitcoin for states services passes its first reading in the Senate. The bill has now passed its first Senate reading having already passed through t
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Bitcoin Price Analysis: Final (CoinTelegraph Says Good Bye to Tone Vays)


Bitcoin Price Analysis: Week of Mar 9
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Sunday, March 8, 2015

Weekend Roundup: Shopping with Bitcoins on the Mastercard Network, First Publicly Traded BTC Exchange


Weekend Roundup from CoinTelegraph
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'Governance 2.0' Moves Forward via Bitnation, Blocknet, Horizon Partnership


In the chatter about the “decentralization of all the things,” one hears about many exciting ideas: self-owning cars, peer-to-peer lending networks, and even mesh nets. The demands for replacements of
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Saturday, March 7, 2015

First Annual Bitcoin Women’s Day Gets Overwhelming Response


March 8 is synonymous around the world as International Women’s Day, and as of 2015 cryptocurrency now has its own version, Bitcoin Women’s Day, with sponsorship from major players including BitPay an
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Miles Kimball on negative interest rates and when robots will set monetary policy


Miles Kimball, who is a Professor of Economics and Survey Research at the University of Michigan tells CoinTelegraph about negative interest rates, the future of paper and electronic money, and crypto
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Kenya Adopts Bitcoin with Bitpesa, Tagpesa and M-Pesa


There is an old joke to the effect that you will always know a Kenyan in a foreign city because the first thing they will ask right at the airport is where they can find an M-Pesa agent in town. Of co
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FREAK Attacks Can Hurt Android and Apple Users, Blockchain Networks May Be a Remedy


A group of researchers in miTLS team have found a new vulnerability in the SSL/TLS protocol. This vulnerability is called FREAK, and it concerns Apple and Android users. The remedy has not been found
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Friday, March 6, 2015

Abine and Coinbase Launch 'Bitcoin Anywhere' Service Using Blur


Abine and Coinbase are using Blur to give Bitcoin users the ability to shop anywhere MasterCard is accepted. The service also comes with enhanced privacy tools.
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