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Monday, April 27, 2015

Caribbean’s First Bitcoin Exchange CEO: ‘Our Biggest Difficulty Is an Uninformed Government’

Bitt, the Caribbean's first bitcoin exchange company, is looking to tap the region’s potential for remittances and banking services by providing faster and cheaper payments using bitcoin.

APR 27 DIGEST: Record VC Investment in Bitcoin's Q1, Cryptsy Accused of GAW Involvement

Bitcoin has received record investment funding in Q1 of 2015. SpeedyBitcoins.co.uk has ceased trading indefinitely after losing their banking provider. Cryptsy has been accused of involvement with GAW

On The Road with the Bitcoin Bus: The Bit Mom’s Journal (Part 4)

Catherine Bleish on her family’s “Uncoinventional Bitcoin Bus Tour” across the USA. The self-styled “Blush Family” - John and Catherine Bleish and their two children traveled from Philadelphia to Texa

Mimetic Markets Releases Source Code of Bitcoin Exchange Platform

Mimetic Markets announced today it has released the source code of its Sputnik Exchange Engine in an attempt to democratize Bitcoin exchanges and motivate developers in contributing to software develo

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Satoshi Broke Software Barriers, ‘Now Everyone Is Doing It’

Chris Mountford is a senior software developer at Atlassian and one of the company’s earliest employees. For those who don’t know Atlassian, it is one of Australia’s great success stories.

Bitcoin: A Target Without an Army to Defend It (Op-Ed)

In the event of an attack, who would defend Bitcoin? The fast answer would be its users—a distributed collective of like-minded individuals. But would they be enough?

Bitcoin ‘May Not Rely on Trust, but Our Members Must Foster Trust to Be Successful’

CoinTelegraph correspondent Dan Simon had the opportunity to speak with David Berger, CEO and founder of the Digital Currency Council.

Dash Proposes Decentralized, Anonymous and Sustainable Funding Structure

Dash wants to use part of the block reward to fund development initiatives and give control of those funds to the Masternode network as a group.

On the Road with the Bitcoin Bus: The Bit Mom’s Journal (Part 3)

Weekend Roundup: MIT Takes Over Bitcoin Core Dev Funding, Blocktech Announces P2P, Decentralized Library

Weekend Roundup fro CoinTelegraph.

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Bitcoin Is Not A Sprint, It's A Marathon (Op-Ed)

The first time I heard about Bitcoin I wasn't very impressed. As an anarchist with an Austrian economic background, it didn't make much sense to me right away.

‘Piracy’ 2.0: vTorrent Combines Bittorrent with Cryptocurrency

vTorrent is the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency client with a built-in bittorrent network, which could make it even harder for ISPs to track and take users to court for online “pirated” co