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Bitcoin Center NYC talks to CoinDesk about its latest project, an incubator that aims to empower new bitcoin startups.

As the mining industry evolves, the Arctic Circle is attracting broader interest from bitcoin companies.

CoinDesk speaks to BitPay's Moe Levin for insight into the company's European merchant market strategy.

Bali-based travel agency BitcoinTour has recently started accepting bitcoin for flight, train and hotel reservations.

Storj has closed its crowdsale, having raised 910 BTC to fund its decentralized cloud storage platform.

Issue 22 is available for sale! We’ve used this issue to present Bitcoin for those who still don’t quite get it. We have worked hard to present Bitcoin in many ways for many types of people. After the basics, we transition into longer essays on some of the differences between virtual and digital currencies and other topics to help get a better understanding of Bitcoin. Kurt Diston has lent his excellent skills to us and illustrated a unique comic for kids (and grown up kids) about the Fastest Coin on Earth. I asked my 6-year-old son, Max, to help me with creating the comic’s plot. Indiana Joel is another illustrator who literally rescued us after a new designer I was working with bailed […]

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This article originally appeared in Bitcoin Magazine Issue 22. There’s a lot of misunderstanding around the terms “virtual” and “digital,” and people often mistakenly use them interchangeably. The reality is that virtual currencies are a type of digital currency, meaning that all virtual currencies are digital, but the converse is incorrect. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are another type of digital currency, but they are in a separate category from virtual ones. Other types of digital currency also exist, and understanding which is which can become confusing. Digital currencies are exactly what they sound like: currencies stored and transferred electronically. Any money based in 1′s and 0′s meets this definition; dollars stored in a bank account are supposed to be a representation of dollars […]

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Hunt For Satoshi fundraiser page Alex Preukschat, Josep Busquet and José Ángel Ares García, the trio behind ‘The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto’, the new Bitcoin Comic which previewed at CoinSummit and was recently written up on CoinDesk, are gearing up to launch their project Kickstarter style on the new SWARM platform which recently raised over $1,000,000 worth of Bitcoin in startup capital. Preukschat says he wants to take 1,000 pre-orders of the comic before it goes to print and those who sign up will receive crypto-tokens from the SWARM platform in return for their donations allowing them access to perks and special offers in the future, like limited edition artwork cover for the comic books and T-Shirts. Crowdfunding on a Bitcoin-only platform makes a lot of sense to Preukschat, […]

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Phishing scams using bitcoin as cover are the latest indicator of the digital currency's popularity.

Following accusations that China's top exchanges were fractional-reserve lenders, OKCoin's audit showed it held 104.86% of customer bitcoins.

Out in the Nevada desert, Burning Man's bitcoin-themed camp has morphed into 'Camp Dogecoin'. Carrie Kirby uncovers why.

Out in the Nevada desert, Burning Man's bitcoin-themed camp has morphed into 'Camp Dogecoin'. Carrie Kirby uncovers why.

Venture capitalists will raise big money in 2014, the Blackberry marketplace will decompose faster than imagined and it's better to think of Bitcoin as a commodity than a currency, according to Silicon Valley VC firms Foundation Capital and Bain Capital Ventures.

I don’t know how it’s going to happen, but I know it will.     A new financial order is emerging which will be radically more transparent than the system which has not fundamentally renovated itself since the crisis of 2008.    PPI scandals.   Libor rigging.    On and on it goes.   The financial services industry fundamentally lost sight of the simple fact that it is not an industry; it’s a service industry to industry.    Its job is to back the industrialists of the day.

OKCoin has passed a Proof of Solvency/Proof of Reserves audit conducted by Stefan Thomas. The audit was announced on Weibo yesterday. Fellow Chinese Bitcoin exchanges, Huobi and BTC China, are also expected to release similar announcements soon. Stefan Thomas previously conducted the same Proof of Solvency/Proof of Reserve audits for Bitfinex and Kraken. Similarly, Bitstamp was able […]

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Le reporter Jacob Smith, reporter au magazine CoinsMan, a dernièrement eu l’occasion de se rendre dans l’une de ces immenses “fermes” de minage de Bitcoin où des milliers de machines sont exclusivement dédiées à la génération de la monnaie virtuelle. Et le moins que l’on puisse dire, c’est que l’endroit est véritablement impressionnant! Le bâtiment, […]

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In a new interview, PeerNova investor and FireEye founder Ashar Aziz discusses bitcoin, cryptography and digital infrastructure.