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 In a magnificent show of technical ineptitude, today the US Marshalls revealed the identities of many anonymous bidders in its 18 million seized Silk Road Bitcoin auction by CC’ing them on an email thread. When one asked a question, the response was sent to 40 of the bidders, many whose names were attached or easily identifiable from their addresses, negating the whole point of the… Read More

Good news, iPhone owners! Now that Apple has revised its App Store Review Guidelines to allow apps that “facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies,” more and more bitcoin wallets are popping up on the App Store. CoinJar was the first app to reemerge and just recently, the open source Coin Pocket was approved for App Store […]

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DISH COO Bernie Han speaks to CoinDesk about why bitcoin payments are smart business for the satellite service.

 CloudHashing.com, the first registered company to offer cloud hashing services for the Bitcoin mining network, has announced new pricing today. At $1.99/GH/s for 1-year contracts starting in August of 2014, CloudHashing.com has set a record low in the industry. CloudHashing.com’s new pricing Bitcoin mining contracts are an attractive offer to many Bitcoin enthusiasts around the […]

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Con el auge de las criptomonedas, cada vez es algo más habitual ver cómo algunas personas emplean hardware ajeno sin permiso para minar estas monedas en su propio beneficio. Sin ir más lejos, hace unos meses un estudiante de la universidad de Harvard empleó para su propio beneficio un supercomputador de la universidad para el […]

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Bitcoin is about to hit the big leagues in a very literal sense -- it just got its first major sports sponsorship. BitPay has struck a deal with ESPN Events that will rename one post-season NCAA football game as the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl...

The US Marshals Service accidentally leaked a list of potential participants in the auction of 30,000 Silk Road bitcoins.

Hitbtc has revealed the winner of their recent round of voting meant to decide the newest altcoin to be added to the fledgling cryptocurrency exchange. Hitbtc was able to generate tremendous support from within their own community to craft and implement a fair system for adding new altcoins, which is a hard-to-earn legitimizing step that […]

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Hitbtc has revealed the winner of their recent round of voting meant to decide the newest altcoin to be added to the fledgling cryptocurrency exchange. Hitbtc was able to generate tremendous support from within their own community to craft and implement a fair system for adding new altcoins, which is a hard-to-earn legitimizing step that […]

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Hitbtc has revealed the winner of their recent round of voting meant to decide the newest altcoin to be added to the fledgling cryptocurrency exchange. Hitbtc was able to generate tremendous support from within their own community to craft and implement a fair system for adding new altcoins, which is a hard-to-earn legitimizing step that […]

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Although pop culture outlets often associate cryptocurrency with computer geeks, Bitcoin and Dogecoin have each made inroads into the athletic community. This year, both the NBA’s Sacramento Kings and the MLS’s San Jose Earthquakes have announced plans to accept Bitcoin payments. For its part, Dogecoin has sponsored both the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team and NASCAR driver Josh Wise. Now, Bitcoin will […]

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Although pop culture outlets often associate cryptocurrency with computer geeks, Bitcoin and Dogecoin have each made inroads into the athletic community. This year, both the NBA’s Sacramento Kings and the MLS’s San Jose Earthquakes have announced plans to accept Bitcoin payments. For its part, Dogecoin has sponsored both the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team and NASCAR driver Josh Wise. Now, Bitcoin will […]

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On Wednesday it was announced that bitcoin payment company BitPay will sponsor what will now be known as the "Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl."

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BitPay, the Atlanta-based Bitcoin payments processor, has signed a deal with a unit of ESPN to sponsor the NCAA football playoff game most recently known as the Beef O'Brady's Bowl.

It will be called the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl. The deal starts this year and will run through 2016. 

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but CNBC reported in 2012 that the Beef O'Brady's restaurant chain paid $400,000 a year for four years to have their name on the bowl.

Here's the full release from BitPay:

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (June 18, 2014) – ESPN Events,  a subsidiary of ESPN, has announced BitPay, the world’s leader in business solutions for the bitcoin digital currency, as the new title sponsor for the annual college football postseason game played in St. Petersburg (Fla.).   Beginning with this year’s December 26 game, the bowl will now be known as the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl.  BitPay will serve as title sponsor for three years through the 2016 game. 

"Our goal is to continue to move bitcoin into the mainstream and sponsoring the St. Petersburg Bowl offers us that opportunity," said Tony Gallippi, Executive Chairman for BitPay. "College football fans and the bitcoin community represent a similar target demographic - tech-savvy men between the ages of 18 and 40."

By sponsoring the bowl game, BitPay is not only hoping to stimulate the bitcoin community around the event, but also to further promote interest in the digital currency on a national scale. The bowl game will be an exciting opportunity to enable fans to use bitcoin in a fun, collegiate sports environment.  With a rapport of over 33,000 merchants and growing, BitPay has led the bitcoin economy by allowing businesses around the world to easily accept bitcoin.   The attention brought to bitcoin by the game will only further boost its ascension into the mainstream. 

"We’re extremely excited to welcome BitPay to college football and our bowl home in St. Petersburg," said Brett Dulaney, Executive Director of the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl. "We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial arrangement."

The 2014 game will be played on Friday, Dec. 26, at 8 p.m. ET at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. The game, which will once again air on ESPN, is in its first-year of its new conference affiliation with the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the American Athletic Conference. 

Tickets for the 2014 Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl will go on sale later this year with prices starting as low as just $40. Tickets will be available through Ticketmaster or by phone at 1-800-745-3000.  Tickets and merchandise will also be available to purchase with bitcoin.

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College football, you are in for a treat. Thanks to three year sponsorship from payment services provider BitPay, the NCAA is rumored to be getting a Bitcoin Bowl. That's right, a Bitcoin Bowl.

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A German hacker turned data storage systems into "digital slaves" that mined more than $600,000 in Dogecoin, according to Dell security experts.

Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports the hacker targeted systems from Taiwan-based Synology, installing software that over a series of months netted him hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of the digital currency.

"This wasn't unique, we've seen other malware install [cryptocurrency] miners, but we haven't seen anything this big before," Pat Litke, a researcher at Dell SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit (CTU) told Keizer. "That was mostly due to the infection vector. He could just walk in the door."

Dogecoin prices have plummeted nearly 80% to $0.0004 from $0.002 in February. 

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Bitcoin payments processor BitPay will sponsor the St. Petersburg Bowl over the next three years.

“The Bitcoin Foundation has had its role in the last two years. Unfortunately, it is internally recreating the same archaic political system that fails to work for society,” Olivier Janssens, Bitcoin millionaire and early adopter, said one month ago, “We don’t need another intermediary. We can do this ourselves.” When the Bitcoin Foundation came under […]

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The classical music academy has become the first educational institution in the Netherlands to accept bitcoin for tuition.

One of the Bitcoin community’s most difficult challenges is negotiating with governments about what role Bitcoin should have in society. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a serious threat to national fiat monetary systems, but the governments behind those systems are a threat to Bitcoin as well. For  proof of this, one need look no further […]

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Digital River Inc., un processeur de paiements en ligne et un fournisseur de solutions de e-commerce d’origine américaine, a annoncé l’intégration de bitcoin dans son pack de solutions de paiements en ligne et de e-commerce pour les petites et moyennes entreprises américaines.  ondée en 1994, Digital River est une entreprise publique basée à Minnetonka dans le […]

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The greatest accomplishment of Satoshi’s technological advancement must be the ability to make huge power structures irrelevant. Making money and the financial system based in math and not in the whims of central authority is the most revolutionary change we may see in our time. However, there is a growing political thought that opposes the […]

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The Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange may still be reeling from the botnet discovery that ruined its business, but it just got a big reprieve. A US court has approved Mt. Gox's Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection, preventing creditors who sued the company from...