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Blockchain launched the new Bitcoin.com today giving bitcoin beginners a learning portal to the basics

As director of Bitcoin Magazine and a Bitcoin Foundation board member, Elizabeth Ploshay is one of Bitcoin’s most prominent figures. Now she plans to bring her ideas and influence to Washington, D.C., where she hopes to change the national dialogue about Bitcoin. Bitcoin Evangelist Elizabeth Ploshay Goes to Washington n the classic film Mr. Smith Goes […]

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Due to fears that Ghash.io would reach 51% of the bitcoin network, BitFury is withdrawing resources from the pool.

If they decide based on good performance to expand acceptance to other services, they’ll effectively be showing the travel industry (and the world for that matter) that bitcoin acceptance is worthwhile. submitted by nextgeneric [link] [5 comments] … Read More Here.

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This week bitcoin inched its way further into the world of mainstream finance. Check out our top stories here.

The Estonian bank LHV will examine bitcoin bank services and the use of the block chain technology.

King's College, a conservative evangelical college in New York City, is now accepting Bitcoin for tuition, making it the first United States university to do so. Hallelujah!

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International Business TimesKing’s College in New York to Accept BitcoinNew York TimesOn Friday, King’s College, a four-year evangelical school based in Lower Manhattan, said that it would become the first accredited college to allow students to pay their tuition in Bitcoin. It’s also the latest in a growing list of groups that have …The King’s […]

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By all appearances, Apple recently tweaked its app store terms of service to provide a pathway to for Bitcoin apps to regain citizenship in its app store.

The move comes about four months after Apple removed the last remaining, and one of the most successful, Bitcoin wallet app, by Blockchain, the London-based firm that also publishes every Bitcoin transaction it has access to. 

Apple never went on record to explain the move, but many assumed it came as a U.S. crackdown on actions against were heating up. 

For the Bitcoin world, it was an unfortunate setback, but hardly fatal.

That's because Bitcoin apps continue to thrive on Google's Android phone. There are now 48 of them, according to Google Play. 

Blockchain says it plans to launch a brand new consumer wallet for Android in mid-July. Blockchain execs say it will be far more consumer friendly than previous versions. 

It will also be more secure than other apps. Five years into Bitcoin's existence, many of even the most well-capitalized Bitcoin firms still lack adequate security protocols, Blockchain COO Peter Smith told BI. "They're giant pools of money," which makes them vulnerable to a MtGox-like meltdown, he said.

Blockchain, on the other hand, simply installs a more user-friendly version of the core Bitcoin software onto your phone, while still guaranteeing any losses.

The company recently provided BI with some screenshots:

Bitcoin prices were little changed Friday, and now trade around $580.

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http://eligius.st/~gateway/ BTCGuild and Slush are also good pools that have been acting responsibly since 2011. submitted by pluribusblanks [link] [1 comment] … Read More Here.

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The initiative seeks donations from World Cup fans and bitcoin community members alike from across the Americas.

TechCrunchExpedia Now Accepts Bitcoin For Your Crypto-VacationsTechCrunchAnother day, another company accepting bitcoin in an attempt to cash in on the craze. This time it’s Expedia the travel booking site that’s accepting the virtual currency for hotel bookings. They’re working directly with Coinbase to accept and then …Expedia wants you to book your next hotel stay […]

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Bitcoin – an illusion, a fad, a passing hobby. Not so much. This week, travel web site Expedia.com said it would begin accepting the virtual currency as … … Read More Here.

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The privacy-preserving search engine now allows bitcoiners to check their balances by pasting public addresses in the search box.

Now that we are neer to the 51% GHash.io (or even there yet), mining is not about earning money, but more about saving Bitcoin as a whole! I only have a 2 G/Hash miner I run with my Raspberry Pi, and I was just about to send it back, but I know that I can […]

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Now that we are neer to the 51% GHash.io (or even there yet), mining is not about earning money, but more about saving Bitcoin as a whole! I only have a 2 G/Hash miner I run with my Raspberry Pi, and I was just about to send it back, but I know that I can […]

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After a successful conference in Singapore, Coin Congress announced its first event to take place in San Francisco in late July. Taking place at the Hilton Hotel Union Square, the conference will feature 30 leaders in the digital currency industry, in addition to a long list of established businesses in the space. The main topic of discussion of events organized by Coin Congress is the state of digital currency throughout the world, providing insight and actionable takeaways including the overall state of the industry, present and future implications, as well as monetization, integration and user acquisitions. Many leading companies within the digital currency space will be participating, including Gyft, Blockstreet, Litecoin, GoCoin, SocialRadius and CryptoCorp. The official press release from […]

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After a successful conference in Singapore, Coin Congress announced its first event to take place in San Francisco in late July. Taking place at the Hilton Hotel Union Square, the conference will feature 30 leaders in the digital currency industry, in addition to a long list of established businesses in the space. The main topic of discussion of events organized by Coin Congress is the state of digital currency throughout the world, providing insight and actionable takeaways including the overall state of the industry, present and future implications, as well as monetization, integration and user acquisitions. Many leading companies within the digital currency space will be participating, including Gyft, Blockstreet, Litecoin, GoCoin, SocialRadius and CryptoCorp. The official press release from […]

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Let me begin by nailing my colors firmly to the mast; I like PayPal. I know that this puts me in conflict with a lot of Bitcoin users, but there you go. Looking at PayPal and Bitcoin, both have certain advantages, and it would be difficult, if not foolish, to ignore their relative strengths. PayPal […]

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 Dropped, as Yoda would say, the other shoe has. U.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Read More

The liberal arts college has announced it will accept bitcoin for tuition payments through a partnership with Coin.co.

Promised SEC rules on crowdfunding are months behind schedule, leaving cash-strapped bitcoin startups in a tricky situation.

Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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People seem to misunderstand what the problem is here. The problem is not that we cannot trust GHash. The problem is that we should not need to. Bitcoin is not supposed to be private money. Bitcoin is supposed to be trustless money. There is a crucial difference. “It’s completely decentralized, with no central server or […]

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth …CoinVox Launches as Simplest Way to Solicit and Accept Political […]

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U.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down … … Read More Here.

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Boom Goes The BitcoinTechCrunchU.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove prices down for a brief period overnight moving the needle down from $620 to $608. Another cache of $83 million worth … … Read More Here.

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By Breaker Restaurant’s Stolen Consumer Data Now For Sale on Bitcoin Black MarketCoinDeskNow, some of the numbers are on sale, with one site accepting bitcoin as payment for the stolen card information. Founded in 1993, PF Chang’s operates more than 200 restaurants in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Mexico, the Middle East and the US, and boasts […]

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By Breaker Restaurant’s Stolen Consumer Data Now For Sale on Bitcoin Black MarketCoinDeskNow, some of the numbers are on sale, with one site accepting bitcoin as payment for the stolen card information. Founded in 1993, PF Chang’s operates more than 200 restaurants in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Mexico, the Middle East and the US, and boasts […]

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Restaurant’s Stolen Consumer Data Now For Sale on Bitcoin Black MarketCoinDeskNow, some of the numbers are on sale, with one site accepting bitcoin as payment for the stolen card information. Founded in 1993, PF Chang’s operates more than 200 restaurants in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Mexico, the Middle East and the US, and boasts …and more […]

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Late last year, the FBI seized Silk Road and the assets of its founder . Now, it's planning to auction off the hoard of Bitcoin, worth around $18 million, that it took control of.

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I apologize for adding another “Ghash, nooooooo!” post, yet network centralization demands priority attention to prevent it from affecting the positive contributions of others. Summery As a community, let’s make this the last time we all hear about the 51% attack. How? The community can encourage the use of P2Pools (pools of bitcoin miners that […]

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El pasado octubre el mercado online “The Silk Road” fue intervenido por el FBI y su creador, Ross William Ulbricht, detenido y acusado de tráfico de drogas e intento de asesinato entre otros cargos. Silk Road utilizaba bitcoins para las transacciones, por lo que las autoridades estadounidenses incautaron aquellos que se encontraban alojados en los […]

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As I predicted the Bitcoin price hit 550 USD early this morning (EST). Even though the price trend looked to be bearish, the price drop of more than 60 USD per BTC that we experienced today was probably mainly caused by US Marshall. In an announcement made for 11 hours ago, US Marshall explains that they […]

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When the FBI seized Silk Road and the assets of its founder, it inadvertently became the owner of one of the world's largest Bitcoin hoards. Just six months later, the US has decided that it wants to sell the smaller, Silk Road-owned portion of the...

Expedia Inc. accepte dès à présent les règlements en bitcoin pour la réservation de chambres d’hôtel. ans un communiqué de presse du 11 juin 2014, Expedia Inc., la plus grosse agence de voyage en ligne au monde, a annoncé que son service Expedia.com acceptait dès à présent les paiements en bitcoin pour les réservations d’hôtels […]

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Bitcoin may be out on the fringes of global financial activity right now, and there’s no real place for it in client portfolios–at least if an adviser wants to … …read more

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Restaurant’s Stolen Consumer Data Now For Sale on Bitcoin Black MarketCoinDeskNow, some of the numbers are on sale, with one site accepting bitcoin as payment for the stolen card information. Founded in 1993, PF Chang’s operates more than 200 restaurants in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Mexico, the Middle East and the US, and boasts …and more […]

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Restaurant’s Stolen Consumer Data Now For Sale on Bitcoin Black MarketCoinDeskNow, some of the numbers are on sale, with one site accepting bitcoin as payment for the stolen card information. Founded in 1993, PF Chang’s operates more than 200 restaurants in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Mexico, the Middle East and the US, and boasts …and more […]

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Despite positive pricing sentiment since March, bitcoin prices declined today amid unexpected news from the US government.

A pair of software developers has unveiled a piece of open source technology that aims to make it possible for anyone hoping to leak secret … …read more

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A website selling stolen credit card data from restaurant chain PF Chang's is accepting bitcoin as payment.

The Bitcoin world has been waiting for more than six months to see where the millions in cryptocash seized from the Silk Road black market for drugs would end up. Now that fortune is about to be sold off, like so many mafiosos’ cars or drug dealers’ bling, to the highest bidder. On Thursday the […]

Bitcoin prices fell as much as 6% today, and are now back below $600 for the first time since May.

The drop was likely linked to an announcement from the U.S. Marshals that it would begin auctioning off Bitcoins seized in the FBI's investigation of Silk Road, the defunct online drug marketplace.

The agency said it was auctioning off more than 29,000 Bitcoins, worth nearly $18 million at Thursday prices. The amount remains a fraction of the 144,341 bitcoins now in the government's possession from the Silk Road case.

Elsewhere, Expedia announced it has begun accepting Bitcoin; and a Bitcoin mining company called HashPlex raised a seed round of $400,000 from a group of investors that included SecondMarket's Barry Silbert. The firm says it can run a user's Bitcoin mining software for them at a lower price.

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When I arrived home from work today, I found my official Josh Wise Dogecoin t-shirt in the mail. Needless to say, I was ecstatic, and my wife was a bit embarrassed as I giddily ran from the mailbox to our house so that I could try it on. Josh Wise Dogecoin Shirts Delivered to Eager […]

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