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PeerNova will sell enterprise mining infrastructure services while keeping CloudHashing consumer-focused.

BitPay announced a plan for prices on its service to be expressed in bits, not BTC or mBTC.

The proposal calls for the creation of new stickers that display both Yelp and bitcoin branding.

This article originally appeared on http://newsbtc.com/2014/05/01/dark-wallet/ May Day, May Day, it’s about to get dark. Dark Wallet (Alpha), the bitcoin wallet software that uses the power of encryption and technology of CoinJoin, has been released. The legality of coin mixing services is still unclear, and the fact that some coin mixing services go by names like ‘The Bitcoin Laundry’ and ‘BitLaundry’ does not bode well in the regulatory spotlight. Although, one can argue the right to financial privacy because bitcoin is only pseudo-anonymous. I took my questions to computer security expert, Kristov Atlas, author of Anonymous Bitcoin, to see what he thought. “You’ve got to admire Cody and Amir for their candor concerning their goals for financial privacy.” – Kristov […]

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The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has indicated bitcoin can be used in liquor sales.

Located in a coffee shop in the city of Mokum, a short walk from the Amsterdam Centraal railway station is a brand new Bitcoin ATM. This new addition has sparked the attention of many crypto enthusiasts, and put Mokum on the map as a city that promotes the use of Bitcoin in Amsterdam. The coffee shop Courtyard of Wise will house the machine, which will officially begin operating on April 30 during the Dutch Ethereum and Bitcoin Meetup. The machine itself is manufactured by BTC-O-MATIC which provides delivery all across Europe. With a base price of $3,000USD, the company will deliver the machine to your door and provide set up, which is included in the price. According to the company, […]

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CeBIT Australia, the country’s largest business technology event, is now accepting Bitcoin as payment using Australia’s leading merchant services provider BitPOS from 5-7 May at Sydney Olympic Park. Gilad Greenbaum, Business and Technology strategist for CeBIT Australia, says: “Bitcoin is an innovative technology that offers a fast, secure and cost effective form of online payment,”  Bitcoin won a Linux award at CeBIT 2014, held earlier this year. Bitcoin was named the ‘most innovative open-source project’. This is quite an accomplishment and shows the respect for Bitcoin, as an open-source project, by developer communities around the world. Votes were taken from thousands of enthusiasts and members of the Linux community. This is a community driven by principles of encryption, anonymity and privacy, first […]

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FXBTC has announced that it will close on 10th May amid continued pressure from the People's Bank of China.

Bitcoiners have long been walking into brick and mortar businesses and pestering the owners about credit card fees, chargebacks, and then intentionally steering the conversation towards Bitcoin. Grassroots activism like this has been sorely missing from the finance sector for decades.  A Bitcoiner’s message is even easier to send online in the form of emails, […]

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Check out three innovations--designed by startups--coming to a hospital near you soon.

With the rising costs of healthcare and the even faster pace at which technology is advancing, hospitals need to stay ahead of the curve. A number of startups are aiming to help these facilities do just that. Check out three startups that have developed tech breakthroughs for the hospital room:

What will the hospital room of the future look like? New York-based nonprofit NXT Health won a Department of Defense contract in 2006 to figure it out. NXT Health teamed up with Clemson University's Healthcare and Architecture Graduate Program on the project, dubbed "Patient Room 2020." Conceptual planning began in 2010, with the goal of implementing the design in 10 years.

David Ruthven, who's the creative director of Patient Room 2020, likes to playfully remind people that when the team began work on the project, the iPad wasn't even invented yet. Even so, they were keenly interested in including cutting-edge technology--as long as they were useful and didn't overwhelm the environment.

The main challenge was to incorporate those tech advances in way that enhanced the patient experience and improved doctors' workflow. For instance, the room features a sink with a sensor-controlled light to encourage hand washing by medical staff. When a nurse or doctor walks into the patient room, the sink glows red as a reminder that they need to wash their hands, the light then shifts to green when they have washed their hands long enough. Staff can multitask while they wash their hands--a tablet above the sink can be programmed to show patient informating and caregiving checklists.

The bathroom has an open design concept and features a sliding door--eliminating the threshold that can be a trip hazard and making it easier to reach patients if they need assistance. "A bathroom in a hospital is more like a procedure space, so we wanted to make it true to what the environment was and design it that way," Ruthven says.

The team also sought to simplify the look of hospital rooms. A "Patient Ribbon"--a streamlined collection of typically disparate items that runs from the patient's head wall to their footwall of the room that has a trash recepticle, smoke detectors, the patient lift system, among other features. A "Patient Halo," which refers to the lights above the bed and the bedside controls, let the patient help dictate the environment. Patients even get their own tablet--the "Patient Companion"--to stay informed about their treatment.

Patient Room 2020 is still undergoing changes and improvements to its design, but NXT health did open a full-size, 400 square foot prototype of the room in July 2013. It likely won't appear in hospitals until 2020. NXT Health has a reported $4 million in funding.

In most hospitals, only the highest risk patients are monitored 24/7--there just isn't the manpower to do it, says Eddie Chen, president and COO of Hawaii-based medical device company Hoana Medical. So some patients can fall through the cracks.

Hoana's LifeBed, which was originally designed for military use, aims to solve that problem. The hospital bed features passive, wireless sensors that track a patient's vital signs, such as respiratory patterns and heart rates, without uncomfortable cuffs or electrodes. If any negative changes occur--based on customizeable parameters--the system alerts the hospital staff.

"Our technology was kind of designed to provide virtual eyes or a safety net for the hospital," Chen says.

Based on feedback from nurses, Hoana also incorporated a feature that measures bed exit events. Meaning, anytime a patient gets out of bed or falls out of bed, the system will alert the staff.

Chen wouldn't disclose Hoana's funding but he says the company is currently in the process of introducing its system into hospitals and is raising another round of funding in the hopes of creating a newer, cheaper, Bluetooth-enabled version of the LifeBed system that could be used in nursing homes and home care.

Nearly everyone has had a bad experience getting blood drawn or getting hooked up to an IV in which more than a few needle pokes were required. What few people realize is that the true cost of those mishaps go beyond patient discomfort. "If a nurse spends [a lot of] time trying to get a simple IV started, it destroys workflow and delay in treatment is a big problem," says Frank Vall, CEO and president of Evena Medical. The Silicon Valley company founded about three and a half years ago, invented the Eyes-On Glasses to try to streamline this process.

Evena--which has been in the vein imaging business for years--introduced the battery-powered glasses to allow clinicians to see through a patient's skin to the vein so they can deliver needle injections more accurately. The glasses feature a "heads-up display," which means that wearers see a far-field image by looking through the glasses (like they would any other pair of glasses) but also see a near-field image, presented on the inside of the glasses. This near-field image is typically of the vasculature (veins) under the skin, rendered through a multi-spectral imaging system.

Though the glasses are similar to Google Glass, the image is presented squarely in front of the practitioner rather than in the upper right corner. This provides the wearer with situational awareness, which Vall says is key.

"All of us can touch our nose and if you look at something on your desk and then look away you can still reach out and touch it because of muscle memory," said Vall. "If we present the image squarely in front of the practitioner with muscle memory, intuitively they can do the [needle] stick, it's just natural."

The image offered by Eyes-On Glasses is the equivalent of a 60-inch screen, which offers crucial visibility for medical procedures. The glasses can also record footage (they have two cameras---3D and Stereoscopic).

In April of 2013, Evena began shipping Eyes-On Glasses throughout the country. The company has raised $11.4 million to reach this stage, and just closed a Series A round last September, and closed a $5 million Series B funding round in February of this year.

The 3D printer startup is now accepting bitcoin payments and is offering a 5% discount on sales to celebrate.

FXBTC posted an announcement to their website earlier today, 5/2/14.  The announcement let FXBTC customers know that FXBTC would be shutting down its site on 5/10/14.  Users have until 5/10/14 to withdraw their funds from FXBTC.  Unfortunately, withdrawals in Fiat at Chinese banks has been closed, at least to FXBTC customers, for over a month now. […]

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MIT’s students have made the news again. Dan Elitzer, president and founder of MIT’s Bitcoin Club, and Jeremy Rubin, a sophomore in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, have organized the MIT Bitcoin Expo, which will be held this Saturday, May 3rd at MIT’s Compton Laboratories Building 26-100. The talks start at 12:00pm and will feature Gavin Andresen, a core developer of the Bitcoin protocol; James D’Angelo, founder and host of the World Bitcoin Network; and Alan Reiner, founder and CEO of Armory Technologies, among others. According to Dan and Jeremy, Bitcoin has not gotten the attention it deserves on campus; despite the Bitcoin Club having to deny entry into their filled meetings, most people only know the basics. I had the […]

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CoinDesk discovers how to audit a bitcoin exchange, who can do it, and what can be proven.

Hats off to Microsoft, it just saved 1 in 4 of the world’s PCs. That is the frightening proportion still running Windows XP and all of them were left crippled after a dangerous security hole was found in Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. Support for XP ended just a few weeks earlier and Microsoft pledged no more patches would come. Now Microsoft has made a radical U-turn to save 25% of PCs and it is one of the bravest but stupidest things the company has done .

A new investment syndicate is being launched with the goal of bringing more investors into the bitcoin space.

Ayer fue publicada la primera versión funcional de Dark Wallet, la cartera para Bitcoin que pretende hacer posible transacciones anónimas. Tan solo hace unos días hablamos desde CCN de las distintas fórmulas que son usadas para crear transacciones anónimas, nombrando entre ellas al proyecto de Dark Wallet. Ayer fue liberada la versión Alpha de esta […]

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The idea of “backing” Bitcoin with some kind of tangible commodity or asset is back in the news again due to a recent statement from Senator Rand Paul. The Senator from Kentucky stated that he’d like to see Bitcoin backed by a basket of stocks because he believes that a currency should be “backed up […]

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D’après un article du Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg LP aurait intégré les prix de bitcoin dans ses terminaux de données financières, un gage de reconnaissance pour la monnaie digitale pouvant inciter les autres plateformes de trading américaines à s’intéresser à celle-ci.  elon un billet publié sur le blog du site de la firme américaine Bloomberg, […]

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