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The growing use of bitcoin as a means of payment has come together with the need for greater security surrounding transactions on the blockchain. While bitcoin comes together with some levels of anonymity, given the permanent record that is the blockchain, the levels of anonymity provided by the bitcoin protocol are considered to be low. […]

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By: Catherine Bleish Daniel Krawisz has made a name for himself as the philosophical opponent to competing currencies. He takes issue specifically with competing crypto currencies such as Litecoin, Dogecoin, and other alternatives to Bitcoin. Dan is the founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute and has been a featured speaker at the Texas Bitcoin Conference, Liberty Forum and Cryptocurrency Con. He currently blogs on www.themisescircle.org. I have watched Dan grow as an activist for several years through our mutual presence at Austin’s finest underground bookstore, Brave New Books. Naturally I was thrilled to hear yet another Central Texas activist was making national waves through his activism. Excited as I was, I must admit I became confused about his stance on […]

By: Catherine Bleish Daniel Krawisz has made a name for himself as the philosophical opponent to competing currencies. He takes issue specifically with competing crypto currencies such as Litecoin, Dogecoin, and other alternatives to Bitcoin. Dan is the founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute and has been a featured speaker at the Texas Bitcoin Conference, Liberty Forum and Cryptocurrency Con. He currently blogs on www.themisescircle.org. I have watched Dan grow as an activist for several years through our mutual presence at Austin’s finest underground bookstore, Brave New Books. Naturally I was thrilled to hear yet another Central Texas activist was making national waves through his activism. Excited as I was, I must admit I became confused about his stance on […]

By: Catherine Bleish Daniel Krawisz has made a name for himself as the philosophical opponent to competing currencies. He takes issue specifically with competing crypto currencies such as Litecoin, Dogecoin, and other alternatives to Bitcoin. Dan is the founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute and has been a featured speaker at the Texas Bitcoin Conference, Liberty Forum and Cryptocurrency Con. He currently blogs on www.themisescircle.org. I have watched Dan grow as an activist for several years through our mutual presence at Austin’s finest underground bookstore, Brave New Books. Naturally I was thrilled to hear yet another Central Texas activist was making national waves through his activism. Excited as I was, I must admit I became confused about his stance on […]

By: Catherine Bleish Many women love Bitcoin because it simply removes the glass ceiling that exists in so many professional work environments. Bitcoin opens doors of opportunity and empowers women to take their careers into their own hands. Tatiana Moroz is a well known singer / songwriter who decided to leave the mainstream music industry in the dust with the launch of the first ever artist cryptocurrency called TatianaCoin. Tatiana has rocked the stage at Bitcoin and Liberty conferences across the globe singing songs of peace, empowerment and Bitcoin. Her “Bitcoin Jingle” became an instant YouTube sensation as she became one of the first artists to create music specifically about the cryptocurrency. When she learned of the Bitcoin 2.0 movement […]

CoinDesk goes behind the scenes with Boost VC on the startup accelerator's latest Demo Day.

By: Catherine Bleish Central Texas has always been a hotbed of progressive thought and action. It is currently one of the most thriving Bitcoin meccas on the planet. This is evident by the large number of Bitcoin-centric businesses in the area, the Bitcoin-heavy media (The Liberty Beat, The Crypto Show, Natural News) , and the nationwide Bitcoin speakers and advocates who reside in the area (Cody Wilson, John Bush, Myself). This is in addition to the growing number of Bitcoin-friendly businesses in the area, many of which are run by women. To celebrate “Why Women Love Bitcoin”, I would like to present a profile on a few of these Central Texas entrepreneurs and ask them questions about their Bitcoin-friendly businesses. […]

Overview This summer, my family decided to add a bitcoin-only twist to our annual trip to New Hampshire for the Porcupine Freedom Festival (PorcFest). We had no clue if cross country travel on bitcoin was possible, but our love for adventure and crypto currency inspired us to find out. Last year we challenged ourselves to spend no Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) at Porcfest, and it was a smash success. We used silver, bitcoin, and barter for food, childcare and other needs during the festival. At the time, a bitcoin was worth around $20. During the course of the past year, we watched Bitcoin grow from an obscure form of barter into a major global economic player. Currently a bitcoin is […]

A new report by research and advisory company Software Advice indicates that small-t0-medium size businesses are not prepared to add bitcoin payments to their business model. Nevertheless, a high number of respondents understand how to calculate taxes on bitcoin payments. Also Read: Acromobile And Bitnet Enable Mobile Merchants to Easily Accept Bitcoin Payments Half of […]

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By: Catherine Bleish I would like to introduce you to a different method of learning, an education system that mirrors many of the strengths found within the Bitcoin network — unschooling. As Bitcoin is to the Federal Reserve Note, unschooling is to standardized education. This decentralized peer-to-peer method of learning provides students with the opportunity to follow their own interests and capabilities without the negative pressures and influences found within centralized models of education. Bitcoin provides power to the users and unschooling provides power to the students. When we look at the whole range of decentralized systems, we see the intrinsic value in such models. In fact, decentralized systems can be found all over nature and society. When you take […]

Bitreserve, an attempt to provide greater transparency for bitcoin storage, exited beta today.

Transcription: How many of you heard of Counterparty (github)? Awesome, wonderful, that’s encouraging sign. How many of you have a Counterparty asset (counterwallet github)? Oh wow, I am in a good audience here. I thought it was more of a introductory course, but good. I want to try to teach how to use those assets and really start thinking what those assets mean. A lot of you are probably very depressed about the BTC price today but Counterparty is doing well and I think Counterparty is here to stay. I think there’s a lot to Counterparty and I think the best way to really introduce us to power of assets in Counterparty is to kind of think back in history. For an […]

After over two years of building the Bitcoin Foundation as part of the founding leadership and then as executive director, Jon Matonis decided to step down and submitted his resignation as executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, effective October 31, 2014 and as a board member effective December 31, 2014. His board seat will now […]

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Research from Accenture indicates that people aged 18-34 and more affluent individuals are most positive about digital currency.

Jon Matonis has resigned as Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation. He announced his resignation with a tweet half an hour ago: “The time has come for me to resign as Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation. Thank you for all of your passionate support! More soon.” Matonis is an e-Money researcher and former Executive […]

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Jon Matonis is to step down from his positions as executive director and board member of the Bitcoin Foundation.

The MIT Bitcoin Project, aimed at stimulation knowledge and use of the cryptocurrency in the MIT student community, is live. All the MIT undergraduates who complete the initial survey before Sunday, November 2nd at 11:59pm will receive $100 in Bitcoin. The project was established by MIT students Jeremy Rubin and Dan Elitzer, who raised half […]

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UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  The revolution is over Fly Title:  Illicit e-commerce Rubric:  Business is thriving on the anonymous internet, despite the efforts of law enforcers Main image:  20141101_IRD001_0.jpg THE first ever e-commerce transaction, conducted by students from Stanford and MIT in the early 1970s, involved the sale of a small quantity of marijuana. For decades afterwards, the online drugs trade was severely constrained by the ability of law enforcement to track IP addresses and the means of payment. The trickle of transactions threatened to become a flood with the emergence a few years ago of Silk Road, a drug-dealing site on the “dark net”. These e-depths cannot be reached through a normal browser but only with anonymising software called Tor. Buyers and sellers transact there pseudonymously in bitcoin, a crypto-currency. Silk Road was shut last year with the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, the 29-year-old American whom investigators believe to be Dread Pirate Roberts, the ...

Longest-serving SEC chairman Arthur Levitt, who now advises BitPay and Vaurum, has said bitcoin firms need compliance to succeed.

Save the date December 5-6, 2014:   First-Ever Virtual Expo for the Global Crypto Community Hundreds of developers, opinion leaders, bitcoiners and enthusiasts have already confirmed their attendance in the Crypto Money Virtual Expo The event will feature live online lectures from the top figures in the industry: Peter Todd, bitcoin core developer; David Johnston and Sam Yilmaz from DApps fund; Matthew Roszac from Tally capital; R Willett from Mastercoin; Kirk Johns from Merchantcoin; and other leading developers and visionaries from the crypto community. The format: Virtual expo that offers a unique experience of Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game featuring online line live lectures, virtual exhibition halls with dozens of virtual booths and enhanced networking capabilities. Don’t miss this […]

Save the date December 5-6, 2014:   First-Ever Virtual Expo for the Global Crypto Community Hundreds of developers, opinion leaders, bitcoiners and enthusiasts have already confirmed their attendance in the Crypto Money Virtual Expo The event will feature live online lectures from the top figures in the industry: Peter Todd, bitcoin core developer; David Johnston and Sam Yilmaz from DApps fund; Matthew Roszac from Tally capital; R Willett from Mastercoin; Kirk Johns from Merchantcoin; and other leading developers and visionaries from the crypto community. The format: Virtual expo that offers a unique experience of Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game featuring online line live lectures, virtual exhibition halls with dozens of virtual booths and enhanced networking capabilities. Don’t miss this […]

Bitcoin startup Bitspark.io has launched a new bitcoin trading platform. The company which in incorporated in Hong Kong, aspires to be the largest, most well-featured and most user-friendly crypto-currency platform in the world. Bitspark charges nothing for the first month of using the trading platform. Bitspark.io launched their bitcoin exchange platform on Wednesday this week […]

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Yesterday, following the eagerly anticipated Fed Policy Statement in which it acknowledged the termination of Quantitative easing (QE), the Bitcoin price took a downward path along with Gold. We consider the outlook for the global economy in the weeks ahead as well as the implications for the Bitcoin price. Start of the Post-Fed QE Era […]

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Kraken launches a bitcoin exchange in Japan today, aiming at the nation's active traders and finance professionals.

On December 5-6, 2014, the global crypto community will come together to mingle, share knowledge and network at the 1st Crypto Money Virtual Expo – an “online meet up” that offers online interactive access to every professional, developer, bitcoiner and enthusiast from around the world, without leaving home. This is an opportunity to remotely attend […]

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Due to fear and uncertainty of online gambling regulations in the United States, popular bitcoin gambling site SatoshiBet announced that they would be immediately closing their doors to customers in the United States. In a PSA on Reddit, SatoshiBet made their announcement and cited their reasons. “Since SatoshiBet launched its casino in early 2013, Bitcoin gained an […]

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Property taxes are a very important revenue stream for any municipality. These taxes pay for things like sanitation, police, and fire departments throughout the U.S. and Canada. And in any county, city, or state you will find hundreds or even thousands of properties that have been foreclosed due to delinquent payment of these property taxes. […]

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On Monday, a United Kingdom High Court judge granted Syscoin’s final injunction against Moopay LTD (more commonly known as Moolah) and former CEO Ryan Kennedy (also known as Alex Green). The injunction included a provision ordering Kennedy to repay the 750 bitcoins Syscoin had deposited in Moolah’s escrow service. The Syscoin price rose 17% following […]

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October 28, 2014: Delta Consultants Limited proudly announces their new project https://gourl.io, that is a GoUrl Crypto-Currency Payment Gateway and Url Monetiser. GoUrl Payment Gateway cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin Dogecoin Litecoin Reddcoin Feathercoin Vertcoin Potcoin Vericoin Darkcoin Speedcoin. Gourl.io offers two choices – Webmasters who have their own websites can install bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies payment boxes on their websites and start to sell own website premium contents online. – Users, who do not have their websites, can use gourl.io monetiser service online, sell their contents online through gourl.io and make money on their files, images, videos, etc. GoUrl Online Monetiser allows members to sell their Urls, Texts, Images, Videos and Files online for cryptocoins such as Bitcoins, Litecoins, Dogecoins, etc. Further, the […]

October 28, 2014: Delta Consultants Limited proudly announces their new project https://gourl.io, that is a GoUrl Crypto-Currency Payment Gateway and Url Monetiser. GoUrl Payment Gateway cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin Dogecoin Litecoin Reddcoin Feathercoin Vertcoin Potcoin Vericoin Darkcoin Speedcoin. Gourl.io offers two choices – Webmasters who have their own websites can install bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies payment boxes on their websites and start to sell own website premium contents online. – Users, who do not have their websites, can use gourl.io monetiser service online, sell their contents online through gourl.io and make money on their files, images, videos, etc. GoUrl Online Monetiser allows members to sell their Urls, Texts, Images, Videos and Files online for cryptocoins such as Bitcoins, Litecoins, Dogecoins, etc. Further, the […]

October 28, 2014: Delta Consultants Limited proudly announces their new project https://gourl.io, that is a GoUrl Crypto-Currency Payment Gateway and Url Monetiser. GoUrl Payment Gateway cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin Dogecoin Litecoin Reddcoin Feathercoin Vertcoin Potcoin Vericoin Darkcoin Speedcoin. Gourl.io offers two choices – Webmasters who have their own websites can install bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies payment boxes on their websites and start to sell own website premium contents online. – Users, who do not have their websites, can use gourl.io monetiser service online, sell their contents online through gourl.io and make money on their files, images, videos, etc. GoUrl Online Monetiser allows members to sell their Urls, Texts, Images, Videos and Files online for cryptocoins such as Bitcoins, Litecoins, Dogecoins, etc. Further, the […]

October 28, 2014: Delta Consultants Limited proudly announces their new project https://gourl.io, that is a GoUrl Crypto-Currency Payment Gateway and Url Monetiser. GoUrl Payment Gateway cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin Dogecoin Litecoin Reddcoin Feathercoin Vertcoin Potcoin Vericoin Darkcoin Speedcoin. Gourl.io offers two choices – Webmasters who have their own websites can install bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies payment boxes on their websites and start to sell own website premium contents online. – Users, who do not have their websites, can use gourl.io monetiser service online, sell their contents online through gourl.io and make money on their files, images, videos, etc. GoUrl Online Monetiser allows members to sell their Urls, Texts, Images, Videos and Files online for cryptocoins such as Bitcoins, Litecoins, Dogecoins, etc. Further, the […]