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Last month our family spent nearly a month living on the road while spending only Bitcoin. During the course of our travel we were invited via Twitter to make a change to our route so we could experience the cutting edge Bitcoin Boulevard, founded by Nikhil Chand and his amazing wife, Rebecca. The pair has helped dozens of restaurants and shops set up to accept Bitcoin through BitPay. We immediately changed our route to include an overnight stop in Cleveland Heights, Ohio so we could test out the local Bitcoin scene and get to know their community. When we pulled up to their vintage 1920s house, Nikhil and Rebecca were waiting for us in their driveway. They helped us unload […]

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During Charlie Lee’s speech at The North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago, the topic of Dogecoin was brought up a few times. His speech was all about the steps coins need to take to be successful, when someone from the audience sparked up the mergedmining topic. Lee is the creator of Litecoin, and a few […]

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During Charlie Lee’s speech at The North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago, the topic of Dogecoin was brought up a few times. His speech was all about the steps coins need to take to be successful, when someone from the audience sparked up the mergedmining topic. Lee is the creator of Litecoin, and a few […]

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During Charlie Lee’s speech at The North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago, the topic of Dogecoin was brought up a few times. His speech was all about the steps coins need to take to be successful, when someone from the audience sparked up the mergedmining topic. Lee is the creator of Litecoin, and a few […]

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After discovering Bitcoin, many begin to wonder if a new altcoin might surpass Bitcoin, the way that Facebook eventually surpassed Myspace, Friendster, and those other social networks nobody remembers. At The North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago, Charlie Lee, Litecoin creator, took the time to explain to people the rules they need to follow to […]

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After discovering Bitcoin, many begin to wonder if a new altcoin might surpass Bitcoin, the way that Facebook eventually surpassed Myspace, Friendster, and those other social networks nobody remembers. At The North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago, Charlie Lee, Litecoin creator, took the time to explain to people the rules they need to follow to […]

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This past month was the Bitcoin in the Beltway Conference held in Washington, D.C. The event was planned by Jason King, who recently ran 3,214 miles on a tour called “Bitcoin Across America”. The Conference took place at the Marriott Renaissance in Downtown D.C. and proceeds went to King’s organization, Sean’s Outpost, a homeless outreach and advocacy group that operates on bitcoin donations. King defies the laws of physics with the amount of energy he pours into his advocacy. In addition to literally running across the country for Bitcoin and organizing this major event in D.C., he is also a regular speaker at BTC events across the country and a dedicated philanthropist. The event featured speakers such as Patrick Byrne, […]

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Blockchain released its latest Android wallet at the North American Bitcoin Conference today.

LibertyMusicStore.net – Sell Songs on Your Web Site for Bitcoin In a world of confusion and chaos, it is rare to come across a site that is easy and has the user in mind from the start. If you are a start-up e-commerce store or an indie artist, it is tough to sift through the myriad […]

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Uncoinventional: the Tour in Review Last month, our family traveled the U.S. spending only bitcoins.  We documented our travels for Bitcoin Magazine through a live blog.  As we embarked on this journey, I had no idea what I had got myself into. Still, I felt compelled to try. For those of you who weren’t following our ups and downs in realtime, here are the highlights: The Numbers The trip took a total of 24 days and brought us to stops in 12 cities. We traveled a total of 4,600 miles and pumped gas 16 times. We stayed in eight hotels, crashed in three guest bedrooms and camped at one campground. We paid seven businesses directly with Bitcoin and used three […]

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Today The North American Bitcoin Conference located in Chicago opened with an announcement of Bitcoin’s first government affairs office. The Chamber of Digital Commerce in Washington D.C. was founded and led by Perianne Boring, an enthusiastic yet serious player in this new political landscape. The move was met with excitement as Perianne tackled the big […]

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Le constructeur d’ordinateurs Dell accepte désormais les paiements en bitcoins sur son site Dell.com. Dans une annonce formulée le 18 juin, le troisième plus gros constructeur d’ordinateurs au monde Dell, annonçait avoir établi un partenariat avec le fournisseur de solutions de paiement Bitcoin aux entreprises Coinbase afin de proposer Bitcoin comme moyen de paiement sur […]

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Thursday, Skilljar announced that they will be bringing their online education platform together with Bitcoin by accepting it as payment for their classes. Skilljar allows businesses to deliver online courses directly to their customers for training, simplifying the integration process and promoting education across the world. One of the most interesting parts of it all […]

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Organisation leader Perianne Boring laid out her vision for the new lobbying group at NABC Chicago today.

 Popular bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info is releasing a major new version of its Android app, allowing you to store, receive and send bitcoins directly from your Android phone. The key thinking behind the update is to make bitcoin more accessible. It hides the complexity of the protocol in order to encourage mainstream user adoption. Read More

En un anuncio inesperado de Michael Dell en Twitter, el fundador y CEO de la compañía ha anunciado que ya se pueden comprar productos desde Dell.com pagando con Bitcoin. Dell es una multinacional estadounidense que desarrolla, fabrica, vende y da soporte a ordenadores personales, servidores, software y diferentes productos relacionados con la tecnología. Tanto los […]

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Whether through oil paintings or other media, these bitcoin artworks showcase the community's creativity.

On July 17, New York became the first state to attempt to regulate Bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency (referred to as virtual currency in the proposal). New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Superintendent Ben Lawsky announced the so-called BitLicense proposal on Reddit. While some in the Bitcoin community welcome regulation as a validation of Bitcoin’s […]

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BitPay annonce sa nouvelle application Facebook Get Bits, un outil simple et ludique permettant d’offrir des bitcoins à ses amis. Annoncée le 17 juillet sur le blog de BitPay, le fournisseur américain de solutions Bitcoin aux entreprises, annonce le lancement de Get Bits, une application Facebook permettant d’offrir des bitcoins à ses contacts et d’étendre […]

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Der Superintendent des Department of Financial Services of the State New York Benjamin Lawsky veröffentlichte gestern auf dem Social-News-Aggregator Reddit einen neuen Vorschlag um Bitcoin-Unternehmen zu regulieren, und die gesamte Bitcoin-Community reagierte ziemlich negativ darauf.

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An altcoin presale fetched nearly $400,000 while two coin developers debated the vericoin block chain rollback.

Nicht zu übertreffen durch Newegg, TigerDirect und Overstock.com: Michael Dell verbreitete heute über Twitter, dass Dell.com Bitcoins akzeptieren wird. Es folgte Coinbase mit einem Blogbeitrag, der ihren neuesten und bisher größten Partner ankündigte. Der privat geführte US-amerikanische Hersteller von Computern mit Hauptsitz in Texas stellt die vorgenannten Firmen mit seinen über 100.000 Mitarbeitern und 60 […]

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 Dell now accepts bitcoin in the United States for online purchases of its products. The move is a win for CoinBase, which today on its blog announced that it was the integration partner for the personal computing company. Overstock.com and online technology marketplace TigerDirect also accept the cryptocurrency. The price of bitcoin, long a driver of media and public interest in the stuff,… Read More

Popularity just isn't easy. That's something cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, are starting to grasp. Yes, they're now being accepted as a formal method of payment by more and more places, but some government entities still can't figure out how to...

A namecoin botnet throws up questions about privacy and censorship in alternative domains.