CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST During the year 2006, complex derivatives that held units secured on American sub-prime property, began to drop in value on rumors of instability; by 2008, the World was well into a major monetary meltdown. People lost in volatile derivatives, in equities as well as in property; confidence in fiat currencies also fell as banks and […] The post Bitcoin value: A conduit for change appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The DATA annual meeting has quite the star studded list of speakers. Here’s who will be sharing their thoughts in DC next week: Keynote: Benjamin Lawsky, New York State Superintendent of Financial Services Keynote: David Andolfatto, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Adam Shapiro (Director, Promontory Financial Group, ex-Chief of Staff, UK FCA) Berin Szoka, Founder and President, TechFreedom Carter Dougherty, Bloomberg Constance Choi, DATA Secretariat Dan Kaminsky, Security Researcher Donald Terry, Center for Financial Inclusion Edan Yago, Chief Executive Officer, Epiphyte Elizabeth Rossielo, CEO, Bit Pesa Erik Voorhees, Co-Owner, Coinapult Garrett Graff, Editor, The Washingtonian Jason Lamb, Deputy Director on the FSP, Gates Foundation Jerry Brito, Mercatus Institute John Beccia, Circle Internet Financial John Clippinger, MIT Media […] The post Data Series: An Interview with John Beccia, General Council of Circle Internet Financial appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Top digital think tanks in France received a crash course in bitcoin from a local user this week. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST A startup says it has developed an independent app store for Apple's iOS and isn't afraid of being stopped. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST During the past four years various Bitcoin-based service companies had occupied comfortable niches during an infancy and adoption phase of the cryptocurrency. Some had naive business models and others immature management to deal with the acceleration that followed Bitcoin’s peak above $1000, the overwhelming sensation and embrace by mainsteet, the Wall Street listings and an […] The post Localbitcoins.com Transaction Risk Alert appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Jason Tyra examines the most significant bitcoin news from the world’s regulators and law courts. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Welcome to slavery Bitcoin, according to the IRS notice of March 25th you are now property. As property and on the basis of capital gains Bitcoin becomes taxable. The actual amount paid in taxes does not represent a threat to the continued adoption of Bitcoin. We all knew taxes would be required at some point. […] The post IRS Decision Quotes and Analysis appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST It’s safe to assume that anyone reading this knows what Bitcoin is. But did you ever stop and wonder how Bitcoin’s underlying technology really works? Bitcoin relies on cryptography to control the currency’s creation and transfer. It uses a cryptographic hash function called SHA-256, widely considered to be very secure. But just what does that […] The post Stanford University Offers Free Cryptography Courses Online appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Can cryptocurrencies move beyond mass distributed national “airdrops” and actually help clean the air? They most definitely can. Ven started out as a facebook app, but grew to be a standalone currency to fix real world problems with the environment. Stan Stalnaker talks about Ven, his social network called Hub Culture, and how he was introduced to DATA. Ruben Alexander: Please introduce yourself and talk about your experience before being accepted as a DATA board member. Stan Stalnaker: I am the Founding Director of Hub Culture (2002), one of the first social networks on the web. In 2007 we launched the Ven, which has long been at the forefront of the digital currency industry. We established the Ven to solve […] The post DATA Series: An Interview with Stan Stalnaker, Founder of Hub Culture & Ven appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine. |
TechCrunch, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST If you’re a bitcoin nerd, you’ll know that finding cheap, low-power mining hardware is pretty hard to do. USB “thumb drive” miners are traditionally woefully underpowered – the little mining rig under my desk right now is running three three BlockErupters and I’m essentially paying for the pleasure of mining bitcoin – but this 11GH/s unit seems to have… Read More |
Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Patrick is originally from Washington DC, the city hosting the data conference, but is currently living in the Pacific Northwest. He has been part of the Bitcoin movement in 2011 and really became known in the community after fall of Bitcoinica in 2012. Here’s the cover of Bitcoin Magazine around that time. Ruben Alexander: What made you want to become a lawyer? Patrick Murck: That’s a great question. I was tricked into it. (laughs) (laughs) My wife tricked me into taking the LSAT and I ended up in law school. Before I knew it, I was on the path to being a lawyer. Both of my parents are lawyers so in some ways you could say I was raised by […] The post DATA Series: Interview of Patrick Murck, General Council of The Bitcoin Foundation appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST At 5PM EST on 4 April, trading for Neo & Bee on Havelock Investments resumed with a major sell-off. |