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America's isn't the only military to rely on heavy-lift transport vessels, the unusual class of utility ship that helped ferry the crippled USS Cole home for repairs. Russia has just released a series of photos documenting the slow return trip to the Zvezdochka shipyard for a pair of its Akula II-class submarines, the Bratsk and the Samara.

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Earlier this week, Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver announced that it will now be accepting Bitcoin donations to help fund a project that is sending two SFU students to India this fall, a project that will focus on empowering women. The university has become the first postsecondary school to support Bitcoin in Canada, and may even follow suit by accepting the digital currency in the university bookstore and dining services on its campuses in the Vancouver area. The decision was made after the project received a $6,000 donation in Bitcoin. SFU Alumnus Scott Nelson and Simon Fraser Bitcoin Club president Mike Yeung made the donations which seemed to have further sparked the university’s interest in Bitcoin and its wide […]

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Apple has unveiled its new in-house payments solution, Apple Pay, as part of its iPhone 6 reveal.

Yesterday, CCN published an article on the accusations that Black Arrow is censoring their customer-base on the bitcointalk.org forums. Along with that, an accusation also tipped CCN off about a Black Arrow miner catching fire. By following the sources provided by the accuser, it was shown that the accuser was indeed telling the truth and […]

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The hacker in control of Satoshi Nakamoto's emails is reportedly negotiating with the bitcoin creator.

The Court of Justice of the European Union received on 02.06.2014 the Preliminary Ruling of The Swedish Supreme Administrative Court (“Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen”) on the interpretation of Article 135.1 of the Directive 2006/112/EC on VAT taxation on bitcoin. The number assigned to the case is C-264-14 (published in the Official Journal C 245 on 28.07.2014, p.7). The preliminary ruling was originated by an advance tax ruling submitted by David Hedqvist (moderator of Section Sweden of bitcointalk.org and founder of www.bitcoin.se), who intended to carry on a business through a switching operation with the virtual currency bitcoin to “fiat” currency. The Swedish Authority for the Ruling first dealt with the Decision 10.14.2013 (ref. 32-12. / I Mervärdesskatt: Handel med bitcoins) on trade […]

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Braintree will soon integrate Bitcoin, a move that could have Airbnb, Dropbox and Uber customers paying in the cryptocash. Meanwhile, PayPal dropped the B-word in a curious promo video, igniting another social media speculation frenzy

Bitcoin startup Gem has launched a private beta of a scalable and security-focused API for bitcoin app developers.

BTChip and GreenAddress have teamed up to launch a USB bitcoin hardware wallet designed to offer multisig security.

GAWMiners introduced Hashlet cloud mining just a few short weeks ago and quickly sold a huge number of them in a short time. GAWMiners quickly followed up with the Hashlet Solos, which are mining pool specific. GAWMiners went on to sell $1 million in Hashlet Solos in 24 hrs. Now, they are following it up again […]

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What if every time you used Amazon they gave you money, just for using it? And what if eBay accepted multiple digital currencies as payment for goods listed on their site? What a world it would be… But Wait! The guys at Ribbit.me! (the exclamation mark is part of the company name) are doing this right now, and they are putting the finishing touches on their marketplace. I met the guys behind this exciting project and had a few questions that they gladly answered. Here’s the whole scoop on Ribbit.me! What is Ribbit.me!? Ribbit.me! is the world’s largest completely free to use online marketplace accepting more fiat and digital currencies than anywhere else. On Ribbit.me! buyers and sellers of new […]

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Rippex aims to boost cryptocurrencies in Brazil with the launch of the country's second Ripple gateway.

If PayPal’s video hinting at Bitcoin acceptance wasn’t enough for the cryptocurrency community, it looks like Braintree will soon be rolling out Bitcoin integration into their One Touch iOS and Android application. The app allows payments to be made swiftly and easily with the user’s cell phone, just the same as Bitcoin. For those who […]

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Because Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has chosen to remain anonymous, the whole world is obsessed with unmasking him, her or them. This obsession has gotten to the point where reporters have harassed an elderly Californian with the same name on a...

BitPay has come a long way since their first office in Atlanta where only the two co- founders were working on the future of payment processing. Now a world leader in business solutions for the Bitcoin digital currency, BitPay, is expanding yet again to a new office to meet the increase in global demand. The need for a new Amsterdam […]

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Fairly or not, bitcoin still has an image problem. For every VC who extols the innovative power of the digital currency, pop culture still sees it as a way for the paranoid cyber-libertarian to shop for black-tar heroin on the Silk Road. All the more reason, then, that bitcoin fans should rejoice that, in a […]

Although progress continues to be made in the area of mobile Bitcoin wallets that are both convenient and secure, the reality is that we’re still missing that perfect solution for safely using Bitcoin with our mobile phones. Hardware wallets and multi-sig addresses have been moves in the right direction, but it turns out that the […]

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Huobi's BitVC exchange platform is launching its futures trading feature with a competition to get users involved.

Trade during yesterday’s US session had pulled the Bitcoin price up towards the upper channel trendline, only to sell it off to near the day’s low. The sense is that the bulls and the bears had spent themselves in yesterday’s battle for control resulting in today’s muted trade. However, a lot is at stake since […]

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Satoshi Nakamoto appears to have lost his email address.

Someone has taken over the email account belonging to Bitcoin’s secretive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, and says he will sell his secrets for money. The hacker, who told WIRED his name is “Jeffrey” claims to have also obtained information on Nakamoto that could be used to unmask his identity. Jeffrey didn’t tell us much, but when […]

 Bitcoin transactions aren’t actually instant. Because each transfer requires a number of confirmations via the mining process, some Bitcoin moves can take minutes or even half an hour. CoinSafe, however, may have created a solution that can process BTC transactions in seconds. CoinSafe, a company founded by Michael Flaxman and Tom Chokel, is a “free Bitcoin ATM service.”… Read More

Theymos, a veteran in the Bitcoin community, posted a thread on Bitcointalk a few hours ago stating that he received an email from an old email address known to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto: [email protected]. Theymos said that the e-mail stated, and he quotes: “Michael, send me some coins before I hitman you.” Theymos recognized that […]

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Blockchain has announced that noted bitcoin legal expert Marco Santori has joined its team as global policy counsel.