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OKCoin has added new features to its Android mobile app, including futures trading and candlestick charts.

Roger Gabriel has four years of experience working in a financial division of IBM in Argentina and 5 years working on e-commerce businesses. He is launching a Bitcoin trading platform that is easy enough for anyone in South America to use. Ruben Alexander: How did you get started with Bitcoin? Roger Gabriel: On bitcoin itself around July of last year, I read a lot about the currency and it intrigued me. Made my first purchase of around 0.25 BTC and just held it on a wallet. On developing a platform around November of last year, I had purchased several coins and made some profit [and] I wanted to invest that on a bitcoin related business. What would be your advice […]

Earlier this week, Apple’s new mobile NFC payment network, ApplePay, went live. From its first few days of life, huge issues are already popping up regarding ApplePay’s security. Multiple users are reporting that using ApplePay has resulted in duplicate charges to their bank statement. CNN Money’s Samuel Burke found out about the double spends after forgoing […]

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Council offices across Italy had their computer files encrypted by a 'ransomware' virus that is demanding payment in bitcoin.

Paydici has announced a new partnership with BitPay that will enable its merchant clients to send recurring bitcoin bills.

CryptoFund is a digital currency investment fund where clients’ bitcoins are professionally traded in the cryptocurrency space. The Cryptomen team, developers of Cryptofund, claim that it’s the world’s very first digital currency investment fund. There will be many CryptoFunds, each named in tribute to space monkeys. The first fund is codenamed: Miss Baker. Each CryptoFund […]

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BitFury’s venture fund makes strategic investment into top digital payment platform to support the adoption of cryptocurrencies SAN FRANCISCO & AMSTERDAM – BitFury Capital, the investment arm of leading Bitcoin infrastructure provider and Bitcoin transaction processing company BitFury Group, today announced a strategic investment into GoCoin. As the first e-commerce payment solution designed to support bitcoin and emerging altcoins like Litecoin and Dogecoin, GoCoin holds a unique position in the market and the deal will support the processing of all digital currency payments. This is the third investment for BitFury Capital, which was founded in July 2014 to drive the growth of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Through strategic partnerships and investments, BitFury Capital will support multiple players in the fast growing […]

BitFury’s venture fund makes strategic investment into top digital payment platform to support the adoption of cryptocurrencies SAN FRANCISCO & AMSTERDAM – BitFury Capital, the investment arm of leading Bitcoin infrastructure provider and Bitcoin transaction processing company BitFury Group, today announced a strategic investment into GoCoin. As the first e-commerce payment solution designed to support bitcoin and emerging altcoins like Litecoin and Dogecoin, GoCoin holds a unique position in the market and the deal will support the processing of all digital currency payments. This is the third investment for BitFury Capital, which was founded in July 2014 to drive the growth of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Through strategic partnerships and investments, BitFury Capital will support multiple players in the fast growing […]

BitFury’s venture fund makes strategic investment into top digital payment platform to support the adoption of cryptocurrencies SAN FRANCISCO & AMSTERDAM – BitFury Capital, the investment arm of leading Bitcoin infrastructure provider and Bitcoin transaction processing company BitFury Group, today announced a strategic investment into GoCoin. As the first e-commerce payment solution designed to support bitcoin and emerging altcoins like Litecoin and Dogecoin, GoCoin holds a unique position in the market and the deal will support the processing of all digital currency payments. This is the third investment for BitFury Capital, which was founded in July 2014 to drive the growth of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Through strategic partnerships and investments, BitFury Capital will support multiple players in the fast growing […]

 Ed Vaizey, the U.K.’s minister for the Digital Economy, has said the government is keeping an open mind about digital currencies as it continues a review of Bitcoin and its ilk which kicked off this summer. Read More

The banks are often blamed for holding back bitcoin businesses, but they have their reasons, a panel finds.

Bitcoin Price is rearing for a move higher. The consolidation below $400 is technically complete, and traders await the first signs of advance. Analysis explores the confirmation signals and targets. Blockchain Quotes Global Economy Bitcoin Price Analysis Summary Comments Blockchain Quotes Amir Taaki in an interview with Aaron van Wirdum: This vision of Bitcoin as […]

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Second-hand electronics retailer CeX will support Bitcoin for purchases and sales at all of its centrally-owned shops in the UK from Wednesday, which it claims is the largest adoption of the digital currency on the UK high street so far, The Telegraph reports. CeX will also pay out Bitcoin as an option when purchasing used […]

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Alchip Technologies, which designs processors for bitcoin mining hardware, will be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange next week.

Technology swap shop CeX has today become the first UK retailer with a far-flung high street presence to widely support Bitcoin. Earlier in the year, CeX briefly experimented with the cryptocurrency at one of its Glasgow locations, which also became...

Brazilian real estate developer Tecnisa is Latin America's largest merchant by annual revenue – and now it accepts bitcoin.

Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, hosted a Reddit AMA yesterday. AMA means “Ask Me Anything” – Reddit users can ask the host all sorts of questions about any topic. Reddit AMAs use the site’s comment system for both questions and answers, and are similar to online text-only press conferences open to all […]

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The computer systems of tens of local administrations in Italy have fallen to a “ransomware” computer virus that encrypts stored files and requests payment in Bitcoin for the decryption keys. The ransom is 400 Euros, and it doubles after three days. Also read: Surge in Ransomware Likely Due to Bitcoin Administration officers at Bussoleno, a […]

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Independent Reserve (IR) is an Australian Bitcoin exchange in Sydney that ran a pre-launch survey that reached 442 people from every corner of the world. From their survey, IR determined that only 8% of participants had used Bitcoin. However, more than half claimed that they “felt they understood Bitcoin” and over three-quarters admitted to having planned to […]

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Bitcoin is the newest craze. You’ve heard the stories of the average Joe whose initial small Bitcoin investment turned into millions nearly overnight. Unsurprisingly, you want to get in on the action. Fortunately for you, it isn’t too late! Bitcoin is a very young currency and it’s growing every day. Many bitcoin enthusiasts believe that […]

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Earlier today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Internet Archive, and Reddit, all filed public comments to the NYDFS regarding their proposed BitLicense Bitcoin regulation. The EFF first posted about the BitLicense, simultaneously revealing their stance and prompting the populace to send their own comments to the NYDFS, last week. The San Francisco companies have […]

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New Australian exchange Independent Reserve says its regulatory compliance and stable location will appeal to customers seeking security.

KnCMiner is going to stop selling miners to “unhappy customers” and will instead focus on mining themselves. Hot on the heels of Magnus Daar Esq. of Nova, a law firm based in Sweden, stating that KnC’s actions might hurt Sweden’s reputation for other Swedish companies, KnC’s co-founder Sam Cole has admitted to closed and less-than-honest business […]

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KnCMiner is going to stop selling miners to “unhappy customers” and will instead focus on mining themselves. Hot on the heels of Magnus Daar Esq. of Nova, a law firm based in Sweden, stating that KnC’s actions might hurt Sweden’s reputation for other Swedish companies, KnC’s co-founder Sam Cole has admitted to closed and less-than-honest business […]

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Nick Szabo is a legal scholar and cryptographer, and although he has categorically denied it, some believe him to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. Nick is the author of bitgold, which was the most complete conceptualization of a decentralized currency prior to Bitcoin. In November of 2013 Nick Szabo went dark and made his […]

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Bug bounty hunters, or white hat hackers, around the world that use the popular platform HackerOne can now be paid in Bitcoin. Earlier today, Coinbase announced a partnership with HackerOne, a  This means that internet giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo! can now pay bug finders in Bitcoin. In fact, HackerOne’s many bug bounty […]

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Technology retailer CeX announced that it will accept bitcoin at all 30 of its UK locations.

The NGO Doctors Without Borders, through one of its affiliated fundraisers, launched an online challenge called “A Day Without Touch” in order to collect funds for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The affiliated organization accepts Bitcoin and other digital currencies, providing the easiest way to donate to this global epidemic. Also read: Largest Nonprofit […]

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Bitcoin Core developer Gavin Andresen took to Reddit today to take part in an ask-me-anything (AMA) session.