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Bitcoin payment processor Coinbase has acquired Blockr.io, a popular block explorer service, in an undisclosed deal.

Bitcoin in Australia has seen solid merchant-adoption in various cities, but one of the biggest problems of bitcoin mass adoption will always be paying for already institutionalized industries. Paying for student loans, internet service, phone service and public transportation are big obstacles in the way of the critical adoption levels Bitcoin-users crave. DISH has recently […]

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BlockTrail is the newly launched block chain explorer founded by tech magnate and VKontake co-founder Lev Leviev.

Recently the cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC announced the addition of Nextcoin (NXT) to their list of altcoins already traded on the exchange. The good news didn’t stop there as HitBTC also unveiled a redesign of their website and added features. These additions came as HitBTC received feedback from their users as well as a community vote on […]

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Recently the cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC announced the addition of Nextcoin (NXT) to their list of altcoins already traded on the exchange. The good news didn’t stop there as HitBTC also unveiled a redesign of their website and added features. These additions came as HitBTC received feedback from their users as well as a community vote on […]

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Recently the cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC announced the addition of Nextcoin (NXT) to their list of altcoins already traded on the exchange. The good news didn’t stop there as HitBTC also unveiled a redesign of their website and added features. These additions came as HitBTC received feedback from their users as well as a community vote on […]

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The price of bitcoin declined sharply today on one major exchange to fall below the $400 mark.

The leading consumer financial watchdog agency in the US lists bitcoin's risks, but ignores its many superior protections.

 A small consolidation wave in the Bitcoin space continues as bigger, better-funded companies scoop up teams of talented designers and engineers. Coinbase, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed Bitcoin wallet and merchant processing company, completed another talent acquisition today with the purchase of Blockr.io. Blockr.io is a popular explorer for the Blockchain, or the distributed public ledger… Read More

 BlockTrail is a new platform for bitcoin analytics launched today by Amsterdam-based researchers BlockCorp. It’s secured €500,000 ($669,310) in funding from BlockCorp, which was set up by entrepreneur Boaz Bechar and VKontakte co-founder Lev Leviev. Competing with Blockchain.info and Blockr, the platform hopes to surface information about crypto currency transactions by creating… Read More

A Tokyo-based bitcoin security consultancy says its ongoing analysis of Mt Gox's trading data is yielding promising results.

While some have responded to reports of NSA spying and advertising tracking our every click online by increasing their privacy through encryption, Tor, and Bitcoin, one Arizona professor is going down a very different path.  This self-described “anti-privacy activist” is hoping the public will donate a staggering $300,000 to help him live without privacy for an entire year by live streaming every moment of that year (yes, even peeing and having sex).

 ChangeTip is hoping to drive mass adoption of micropayments on the web by using Bitcoin plus existing social networks as the medium to deliver feeless micro donations to content creators. Which means part of its mission is “to spell the end of click bait”. And that’s something anyone who spends time online should really be rooting for. Read More

Swedish bitcoin exchange Safello has launched a new service for charities that lets them easily create free fundraising campaigns.

In the last week we have witnessed sell orders of more than 1000 bitcoins at a time pushing the Bitcoin price downwards. The Bitcoin price has fallen from a stable 590 USD per Bitcoin (August 10th) to now 475 USD per Bitcoin. There have been no recent negative news or happenings that could explain the […]

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Exchange BTC China has relaunched its iOS mobile exchange app, and has a wallet app awaiting approval.

Earlier this week BitGo and the Bitcoin Foundation issued a joint statement announcing the Foundations’s selection of BitGo Enterprise platform for internal financial controls. BitGo, based in the US, is a leading Bitcoin security platform and a pioneer of multi-sig technology. The company’s BitGo Enterprise™ offers the first multi-user, multi-sig secure Bitcoin wallet designed for […]

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Banyak sekali pemain baru yang belum mengerti dan faham tentang bitcoin bertanya apakah menguntungkan untuk menyimpan bitcoin sekarang atau nanti, ini bisa jadi karena fluktuasi harga yang sangat wow pada akhir tahun 2013 lalu. Baru ini yang terjadi adalah demam es “stellar” yang menarik banyak pengguna aktif di vip.bitcoin.co.id, sehingga 200+ orang tiap jam. Sekarang […]

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Bitcoin prices have declined $100 in the past week, about 17%, to $488, according to CoinDesk. 

The news comes despite announcements last week that Overstock.com was now averaging $15,000 a day in Bitcoin sales, and that DISH Network had officially begun accepting the cryptocurrency.

Some analysts are blaming the plunge on a "margin call" at Hong Kong exchange Bitfinex, which is one of the only platforms that allowed users to borrow funds from peer liquidity providers to trade bitcoins. As prices fell through $530, a "cascade" of calls appears to have occurred, according to Raffael Dannielli of MatLabTrading.

Tim Swanson, a Business Insider contributor who blogs at Of Numbers, had a more conceptual explanation for the price decline.

"It’s unclear if the news itself is leading it because it is hard to quantify and qualify; how do we know it is not manipulated via coordination by whales, Willy bots or exchanges?" he writes.

He goes on to say that there is work being done to make exchanges more transparent, and that this could result in a new kind of exchange that supplants those like Bitfinex, whose website contains a minimum amount of information about its operations.

This is one of the reasons why Coinometrics is trying to spearhead the Compare The Exchange (CTE) transparency effort, by surveying exchanges to find out what kind practices they implement...While it is unclear what immediate impact regulatory compliance proposals such as Bitlicenses from New York may have on exchanges (e.g., are all fiat-based exchanges depository institutions?), in the long-run the first two generations of exchanges may be living on borrowed time. That is to say, if the first generation was Mt. Gox and, 2nd generation exchanges are Bitfinex and Bitstamp, then the rise of a 3rd generation, potentially regulated or consortium of “self-regulated” exchanges, could eventually implement some of the suggested CTE “best-practices.

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