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Twenty bitcoin businesses have announced support for The Windhover Principles, which aim to reframe the debate around privacy and security.

It’s been said that sending an email is like sending a postcard—you should assume that it’s viewable by many others. While this is true, it’s only true because trusted third parties—that is, the email providers—have been discovered to either be viewing message contents themselves, or revealing them to additional third parties (e.g. governments or advertisers). It’s a classic result of the “problem of trust.” For those of us who value privacy (and privacy isn’t just for people with “something to hide”), it’s become necessary to go one step further in our communication: encryption. Encryption is a mathematical process, and it’s one of the features that makes the Bitcoin blockchain secure against attackers. In addition to the blockchain, encryption can also […]

On Tuesday October 28, Bitcoin Magazine and Amagi Metals present the live stream of the San Francisco Bitcoin Meetup at Geekdom. This event hosts two speakers working in the crypto field, followed by a series of 1-minute lightning talks. The main talks will start at 7:30pm (about 15 minutes per speaker) and will be followed by a set of 10 lightning talks. Featuring: Michael Dunworth of snapCard on Merchant adoption: How everyone helps make it happen Paul Puey of Airbitz on Bitcoin Wallets: Balancing Security, Privacy, and Ease of Use Share and bookmark this post! The live stream will be embedded here, on or before October 28.

Bitcoin exchange Coinfloor now accept dollars, euros and zlotys, and has revealed plans to offer a bitcoin ETF soon.

Shares of the Polish company inPay S.A. are available for purchase in public offering using the digital currency Bitcoin. The sale has launched on the Polish equity crowdfunding site Beesfund.com. With the public offer of the company’s shares, the inPay team want to acquire financing for the quick development of the InPay system in Poland […]

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The nomenclature of bitcoin and its subunits plays an important role in evolving standards for more mainstream adoption.

SnapCard hopes to turn San Francisco into a bitcoin hub by helping 500 local merchants accept the cryptocurrency.

Whenever you hear, “That currency is not backed by anything!,” it’s almost always meant as criticism. Hard-money enthusiasts are quick to point out the horrible track record of fiat currency. Nearly without fail, currencies “backed by nothing” get heavily devalued through inflation, and they often collapse within decades. The best solution, so far, has been to tie currency to a commodity whose supply can not be arbitrarily inflated by governments or central banks, or to use that commodity directly as a currency. Gold and silver have served this purpose best, and they have been used successfully for millennia. Backing any currency in precious metals restrains the possibility for inflation. But, when we look deeper, the connection between being “unbacked” and […]

A Polish company, InPay S.A., is the first in the world whose shares are available for purchase in public offering using the digital currency Bitcoin. The sale has just launched on the equity crowdfunding site Beesfund.com. Equity crowdfunding is simply raising capital thanks to the online community. Unlike the reward-based crowdfunding, made popular by sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo or RocketHub, in equity crowdfunding people who are involved in financing the company receive personal shares. Examples of sites which enable this type of capital acquisition include the American websites EquityNet and Fundable or the British Crowdcube. Thanks to these services companies have raised over 300 million dollars in total. But up till now none of the leading platforms had enabled […]

Seedcoin and startups BTC.sx, BitcoinATM360, bitSIM, CoinSimple, meXBT share exciting news this Fall! Hong Kong – October 21, 2014 – Continuing their steady pace in launching innovative products and being involved at the forefront of the bitcoin industry, Seedcoin and its startups BTC.sx, BitcoinATM360, bitSIM, CoinSimple and meXBT have exciting news to share during the Autumn months. BTC.sx: The world’s first and exclusive platform for trading Bitcoin-only trading, BTC.sx sponsored the Inside Bitcoins London conference (Sept 15-16) alongside Seedcoin recently. The company has since launched a revenue sharing referrals scheme, allowing customers who recommend their friends to earn 20% of BTC.sx’s revenue from traders they have referred. Further expanding its global presence, BTC.sx announced yesterday it has integrated its trading […]

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 21, 2014 Today, New York City-based recording studio, announced that it is changing the music industry by offering the first in-studio music seminars, and by announcing its acceptance of the controversial digital currency ‘bitcoin.’ Premier Studios serves the industry elite, is aimed at working with students, or others interested in pursuing a career in music production. In another pioneering move, Premier Studios announced the launch of their much-anticipated, intensive preparatory seminars. Individual ones range from $200-$400 and are being accepted now. If you accumulate approximately 15 seminars at a total cost of $5,000 (seminars are paid for when they are taken so you do not have to pay the $5,000 in 1 lump sum) you […]

Bitcoin companies Circle and BitPay have submitted the final comments on New York's BitLicense proposals – for now.

There are many reasons for optimism for Bitcoin owners and enthusiasts. Bitcoin is starting to gain a steady flow of mainstream acceptance (See corporations like The United Way, Dell Computers and ESPN integrating Bitcoin into their business offerings). Innovations in wallet and exchange technology appear on a weekly basis. And the USD value of Bitcoin […]

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Bitcoin Price has held steady despite apparently coordinated efforts to pull price back into decline. We look at the outcome of an uptick in growth in the Chinese Economy, as well as the coming surge in Bitcoin adoption to be precipitated by unavoidable market turmoil. China Growth Improves (a little bit) Global Economy Bitcoin Price […]

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 Right after opening its doors to Europe, Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong joined Alex Wilhelm on stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe to discuss the future of bitcoin. The conversation covered everything happening right now around bitcoin, from regulatory issues to bitcoin’s price downfall, merchant adoption and new innovative bitcoin use cases. Read More

Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, will hold a Reddit AMA later today at 11am Eastern Time (8am Pacific Time, 4pm UK, 5pm Continental Europe). It isn’t clear whether the AMA will take place on r/bitcoin or r/IAmA, so keep watching both subreddits. AMA means “Ask Me Anything” – Reddit users can ask […]

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As federal and state regulators grapple with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, entrepreneurs and developers are attempting to build a new financial economy. In an event organized by the New York Law School, legal, financial, and technical experts will discuss today the hurdles and hopes of what is coming to be known as the Internet of […]

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EasyBitz, a Bitcoin outreach organization based in the heart of New York City, is making a video to introduce retailers to real Bitcoin people. EasyBitz’s aim here is to show store owners and businesses that the Bitcoin community is not a scary group of hackers and evil-doers. It’s made of regular people like you and […]

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A new company by the name of Sfards has slowly been making it’s rounds in the community as a new mining ASIC manufacturer. The company was formed by joining three companies together, Diginforce, WiiBox, and Gridseed. Despite their name sounding like smelly farts, Sfards states that, “The word ‘Sfard’ is derived from Latin, and is […]

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Any time a business throws their hat into the ring and chooses to accept Bitcoin: it is cause to celebrate. Wholly Hemp is one of the first online merchants to embrace Bitcoin on the Bitcoin subreddit. The more merchants who accept Bitcoin as a payment method, to closer it moves to mainstream viability and, in this […]

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The Bitcoin Foundation is improving its corporate governance structures with ideas for new nomination procedures ahead of board elections.

BTC.sx, a London-based bitcoin derivatives platform, has partnered with itBit to integrate its BTC-USD trading currency pair with the exchange’s existing offerings. The new platform will mimic that of an E*Trade platform. According to BTC.sx cofounder Joseph Lee: “The platform essentially emulates what an E*Trade platform would be. We’ve tried to set up a professional […]

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