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On July 17, BitPay announced the launch of Get Bits, a simple solution to Get bitcoins anywhere in the world. If “What is a Bitcoin?” is the number one question asked, perhaps “How do I get a Bitcoin?” is the second most asked. Buying bitcoins is one of the biggest hurdles to getting started; that’s […]

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New Chamber of Digital Commerce president Perianne Boring shares how she aims to change bitcoin's perception in Washington.

Barry Silbert's Bitcoin Opportunity Corp has invested $250,000 in Volabit, the startup formerly known as Coincove.

AirBaltic may be the first airline to accept bitcoin, but its implementation doesn't take advantage of its full potential.

BitcoinUkMedia is a cryptocurrency podcast for the United Kingdom. Started by Freya Stevens earlier this year the podcast now has 10 episodes focusing mainly on interviews with those involved in the cryptocurrency community. Freya was kind enough to answer a few questions about the podcast.

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Transaction network ZipZap has announced that consumers across 34 countries will soon be able to use its cash-to-bitcoin services.

Last night, a company called Ethereum began selling the first batch of its cryptocurrency, called Ether.

As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, investors had already bought $2.6 million worth.

We're living in a time when an app that just says Yo is worth $10 million, so this shouldn't be too surprising.

But the digital currency world has been anticipating the first Ether sale for more than a year, and regards Ethereum's creator, Vitalik Buterin as potentially the most important person in cryptocurrency since Satoshi Nakamoto. 

The goal of Ethereum is to decentralize everything using blockchain technology. We talked about what the futuristic version of this could look like a few months ago. It's similar to the Internet of things, having all your machines talking to one another so that you can have driverless taxis figuring what to charge you based on how much traffic there is and how fast you need to get where you're going.

Ethereum seeks to cut out banks, stock exchanges and even lawyers, and replace them with a blockchain, a decentralized ledger of transactions. Individuals or companies will be able to issue "smart" shares or contracts on Ethereum's blockchain that give a user pre-programmed rights or capabilities. Gil Luria, Wedbush Securities' digital currency expert, told us in an email that some ethereum applications could include exchange-less derivatives trading, "smart" escrow services, and predictions markets. 

Ethereum's Ether will eventually be mined like Bitcoin, as a way for rewarding people for devoting immense amounts of computing power to making the whole system work. "Without the requirement of payment of ether for every computational step and storage operation within the system, infinite loops or excessive storage demands could bog down ethereum and effectively destroy it," Ethereum says on its website. The Ether sale is allowing investors to lock-in supply at a known price now, with the rate set at 2,000 Ether to 1 Bitcoin, or $620. 

Buterin, a Canadian barely 21 years old, was talking up Bitcoin when the cryptocurrency was still wondering in the wilderness. He founded Bitcoin Magazine and published some of the most incisive pieces on what cryptocurrencies could do beyond simply serving as money. All that rumination eventually inspired Buterin to create his own, improved version.  

"Ethereum has vast potential, whereas Bitcoin won't ever do anything well beyond implementing a currency," programmer Nick Szabo, another early Bitcoin proponent who's recently begun Tweeting after an extended absence from the Internet, told us in an email several weeks ago.  

Luria says there are "many more" Ethereum applications "that we have to think about." In other words, Ethereum's immediate use remains mostly limited. But for those who missed out on getting in on Bitcoin early, Ethereum's launch represents something of another chance.  

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CoinDesk speaks to the developers behind the first of what could be many Intuit products integrated with bitcoin.

A new crop of bitcoin-focused hedge funds wants to direct sophisticated investors into the cryptocurrency markets.

The presale of Ethereum's own platform-specific altcoin kicked off last night, with sales already booming.

Many people have been waiting for Bitcoin’s killer app. This is the one app that would provide a use case where it actually makes sense for the average person to use Bitcoin on a regular basis. It seems that we may have finally have the first such app in the form of BitHalo. This new […]

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The Cryptolina Bitcoin Expo is picking up where this past weekend’s Chicago Bitcoin conference left off. Raleigh, North Carolina – the city that has been called a new Silicon Valley – will host Cryptolina on August 15 and 16, and organizers announced today that a major regulatory discussion will occur on the morning of Saturday, […]

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I read an article at The Atlantic about the IRS ruling on Bitcoin as property. This would mean Bitcoin would be taxed under capital gains, meaning that taxes would be placed on values at time of attaining and using/selling Bitcoin. The Atlantic argued that that made Bitcoin unfungible and therefore killed it as a currency, […]

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Bei Charlie Lees Rede auf der The North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago kam das Thema Dogecoin mehrmals zur Sprache. Seine Rede handelte davon, welche Schritte unternommen werden müssten, um Altcoins erfolgreich zu machen, als ein Zuhörer mit einer Anmerkung das Merged-Mining zum Thema machte. Lee ist der Schöpfer von Litecoin, und vor ein paar […]

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Bei Charlie Lees Rede auf der The North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago kam das Thema Dogecoin mehrmals zur Sprache. Seine Rede handelte davon, welche Schritte unternommen werden müssten, um Altcoins erfolgreich zu machen, als ein Zuhörer mit einer Anmerkung das Merged-Mining zum Thema machte. Lee ist der Schöpfer von Litecoin, und vor ein paar […]

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Bei Charlie Lees Rede auf der The North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago kam das Thema Dogecoin mehrmals zur Sprache. Seine Rede handelte davon, welche Schritte unternommen werden müssten, um Altcoins erfolgreich zu machen, als ein Zuhörer mit einer Anmerkung das Merged-Mining zum Thema machte. Lee ist der Schöpfer von Litecoin, und vor ein paar […]

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Some people ask me why I love Bitcoin so much, given that I (at the time of this writing) don’t have very much. I wear Bitcoin shirts, talk about it way too much, and have convinced dozens of businesses to adopt it–I even got a Bitcoin tattoo on my left shoulder, paid for in BTC. No wonder they ask. Usually, I just shrug it off (the question, not the tattoo), and say that I hate the government. That is fairly correct, but it’s not the real reason I’m so passionate about cryptocurrency. While Bitcoin certainly is able to fix some of our world’s biggest problems, and I’d like to think my motivations are as logical as that, the deeper reasons are more […]

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We are living in a new world.  As Andreas Antonopoulos put so eloquently, “now that we have crypto-currencies, it’s not sovereignty that determines currency, it’s currency that creates sovereignty.” Bitcoin has helped declare independence for the Internet, and it appears it will continue to disrupt the status quo until that independence is recognized.  If we’ve learned anything from P2P technology, it’s that our rules bend around the tech, not the other way around. But if our rules bend around the tech, could we one day be living in a world where our borders do too? Take the concept of decentralized autonomous states, or society if you like. The idea is that a political faction could be distributed throughout a global […]

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Beepi, a peer-to-peer used auto marketplace based in California, recently announced that it will begin accepting Bitcoin payments through a partnership with Bitpay. Both companies are hopeful the new alliance will help simplify the payment process for customers paying with Bitcoin for used cars. What Is Beepi? In 2013, Beepi entered the used car market, […]

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