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Serbia's bitcoin community intends to step up public awareness efforts after a central bank warning.

Latin America's bitcoin economy may be expanding, but overall awareness remains low, one startup's story shows.

In a recent interview with CNET, Netscape founder Marc Andreessen shared his viewpoint on Bitcoin, saying that he wished he invented Bitcoin without hesitation. “When we tried to get investors for Netscape, most of them said ‘you’re out of your mind,” Andreessen said. “This is the thing that’s most like that of anything I’ve seen […]

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Reuters reports that Venezuelans looking to bypass dysfunctional economic controls are turning to the Bitcoin virtual currency to obtain dollars, make Internet purchases – and launch a little subversion. Acquiring US dollars in Venezuela means either requesting it from the state, which struggles to satisfy demand, or tapping a shadowy black market. Even small dollar […]

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The Bitcoin Foundation has appealed for the release of the research behind New Yorks proposed bitcoin regulation.

A Bitcoin hardfork is coming. In a recent post to the Bitcoin Foundation‘s blog, Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen sketched out “one possible path for the behind-the-scenes technical work that is being done (or will need to get done) over the next few years to scale up Bitcoin.” He proposed that the Bitcoin protocol would require […]

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I attended the Cryptolina Bitcoin Conference in August and got to hang out with Brian Page from BitShares. We talked about Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and of course, about BitShares. I had seen these guys around at conferences, and like most people, I didn’t understand what they were trying to accomplish. I was finally able to find out after speaking to Brian about a few things. I hope to clarify what this often misunderstood group within the Bitcoin community is doing. What is Bitshares? Bitshares is a brand of open source software based on the same blockchain technology behind Bitcoin. Unlike Bitcoin, which is based on proof of work, BitShares is based on proof of stake, meaning that miners are not utilized. […]

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Netagio, the first British Bitcoin, gold & Sterling exchange, announced the launch of its Application Programming Interface (API). Investors can now program and fully automate their trading on the exchange. Also read: Bitcoin Exchange Netagio and WalPay Prepare For Future Card Transactions The Netagio API enables investors to trade Bitcoins for GBP or gold, view […]

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Today marks the beginning of CoinAgenda, a Bitcoin conference made especially for Bitcoin investors. Companies from around the world are gathering in sunny Las Vegas to present their ideas to over a hundred hopeful investors that have or are interested in making moves in the digital currency space. One such Bitcoin company that is seeking […]

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Venture capitalist Fred Wilson is not a hoarder of Bitcoin. He doesn’t care about that aspect of Bitcoin, but rather he is interested in the promise of Bitcoin as programmable money. Now, he started buying it again after staying mostly on the sidelines for most of the past two years. He thinks that the market […]

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South Korea's Coinplug has secured a $2.5m funding round from mainly local investors, and is targeting young online shoppers.

In the article “Why The Bitcoin Price Drop Is Really Good News” I mentioned the upcoming issues on the horizon for the U.S. Dollar. Many nations are trading internationally without it now, and these “bilateral trade agreements” are on the rise.  Growing global disinterest in the dollar will only increase the need for monetary alternatives […]

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Trustonic, the leading provider of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) for smart devices, on Monday announced a collaboration with HTC. According to their press release, this partnership will bring new capabilities to HTC devices that are designed to simplify user authentication while offering better protection against threats posed by malicious software. Security measures often bring with […]

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Bitcoin Price traded sideways-to-up during the US session with today’s Asian session pulling price down to the low $320s. Today has a full moon, and its influence will show us the stage of trend development in the Bitcoin price wave cycle. Bitcoin Price Midway through the Asian trading session the 4-hour Bitstamp chart looks like […]

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Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist Gavin Andresen has proposed increasing the bitcoin network block size.

Before I even mentioned Bitcoin -like I just did- take a stroll with me down memory lane and let’s look at past technologies for a moment. Remember when you got your first AOL account when you had to dial-in? What about your first email address, which was more than likely a combination of your name […]

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Airbitz, a hosted wallet service, has launched their new mobile wallet for Android and IOS. The Airbitz mobile wallet has several features that are unique to Airbitz. The wallet itself features a built in business directory of brick and mortar stores and online websites that accept Bitcoin. The app has a directory tab which will […]

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On Tuesday, Bloomberg published an interview with legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen in which Andreessen talked about Bitcoin and the financial industry.

Andreessen told Bloomberg that if you started the financial industry today you'd build none of these institutions in the same way, adding that, "To me, it's all about unbundling the banks... Bank regulation tends ot backfire, and of late that means consumer lending is getting unbundled."

You can read the whole interview with Andreessen here.

But on Tuesday afternoon, Andresseen took to Twitter to add a few more thoughts, firing off 13 straight tweets in one of his internet-famous Tweetstorms.

We've collected the whole thing below:

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