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BTC Guild has announced that it may close soon, while ZeusMiner is stopping development of its Volcano ASIC.

A Spanish hotel chain launched a bitcoin ATM last night at a party attended by over 100 people.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a charity institution that rescues people at sea in the British Isles. It saves on average 23 people every day, and since its inception in 1824 has saved 140,000 lives. The charity has come a long way since its founding. Three months ago, the RNLI began accepting Bitcoin […]

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Long-time basketball star Shaquille O’Neal has a new video game on the horizon utilizing the cryptocurrency Quark, also known as Quarkcoin, and it seems as though the legend is doing his research. Or, at least reading from a script. Shaq took to his webcam and explained what Quark is in a brief segment that was […]

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More than $9m in bitcoin may soon be sold by the Australian government in what could become the next high-profile Silk Road auction.

Fuqua School of Business Professor Campbell Harvey is offering a new class called ‘Innovations and Cryptoventures’ to students in the Spring 2015 semester. His new class, which has been in development for the last several months, will be available to Law students, MBA students, graduate students, and technically skilled undergraduate students. Other schools that have launched […]

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 A blockchain tinkerer named Chris Ellis has created a system to build an actual digital passport that, through use of the Bitcoin blockchain and some encryption, will allow you to identify yourself online and off. Called World Citizenship, the project just launched on Github and shows some definite promise. “The goal of this project is to learn and layout a simple process for anyone in… Read More

Payments consultant Faisal Khan looks at the options for bitcoin companies following recent new guidance from FinCEN.

New Hampshire – the first colony to sever ties from Great Britain – is once again leading the revolution. Along with its centuries-long “Live Free or Die” culture, New Hampshire is becoming a Mecca for digital currency enthusiasts. In just the last few years, Bitcoin experts and entrepreneurs have been eagerly coming to New Hampshire to spread their message. Many Bitcoin users are members of the Free State Project: a cooperative organization encouraging liberty-lovers to migrate to New Hampshire. Members of the Free State Project range from Democrat and Republican Party members to crypto-anarchists, and many in between. As Bitcoin represents an incredible technological advance in the direction of liberty, it should come as no surprise that early Bitcoin movers […]

One of the web's foundational groups is re-examining online payments, but bitcoin is only just entering the conversation.

LakeBTC will be suspended from the CoinDesk BPI for 30 days pending a review of its data.

Incoming Bitcoin Foundation executive director Patrick Murck has outlined his agenda for the organization's future.

Christopher Ellis has created software that allows anyone to create a World Citizen Passport. The software uses PGP encryption software and the Blockchain to create an identification paper that is almost impossible mathematically to fake. Not only can the Blockchain be used to store these world passports, it can store all kinds of documents including […]

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British bitcoin trading platform Coinfloor has announced the inclusion of more fiat currencies in its array of trading instruments. In a blogpost on its website, the company said that in addition to pounds sterling, the company would be adding dollars, euro and zloty. Coinfloor also enables its clients to make deposits into fiat currency-denominated accounts. […]

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The New York Times, RT and many other top news outlets report that 51 nations on Wednesday signed what Germany’s finance minister hailed as a milestone in the fight against tax evasion – an agreement that commits them all to automatic exchange of tax information starting in 2017. The two-day summit was organized by the […]

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Following the pre-announcement of last week, Bitreserve is now open for business with real-time transparency data. Also read: Bitcoin Reserve “BitReserve” Banks To Open its Vaults Soon Bitreserve Founder and CEO Halsey Minor says: “Today we are thrilled to announce we have fully launched Bitreserve and are now accessible to the public.” Halsey Minor also […]

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A few weeks ago, I opined on why Republicans should love bitcoin. Thankfully, though, the GOP aren’t the only ones invited to the party. That’s the nature of bitcoin: it has something to offer to everyone. To illustrate, each section of this article begins with a quote taken directly from the Democratic National Platform, followed by a discussion of how bitcoin can address the issue in question. Wall Street For too long, we’ve had a financial system that stacked the deck against ordinary Americans. Banks on Wall Street played by different rules than businesses on Main Street and community banks…That behavior not only nearly destroyed the financial system, it cost our economy millions of jobs, hurt middle class and poor families, […]

This November, Dubai plays host to the first ever Bitcoin conference in the Gulf. The event will take place in the Dubai International Financial Center, a special economic free zone in the heart of downtown Dubai and a hub of the region’s financial world. The conference will take place from December 11 – 13 2014. […]

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Bitcoin Price is continuing a slow decline. Our target at $330 has not been struck decisively and price currently looks set to return to it – if not lower. Bitcoin Price Lower Lows Summary Comments Bitcoin Price Lower Lows Time of analysis: 04h30 UTC Asian Session The Bitcoin price has rebounded from just above $330 […]

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Monero has ranked among the top altcoins since its release in April, even earning its own market as a trading pair on the altcoin exchange Poloniex. However, the Monero price has been in decline for the past several months. CCN examines this altcoin price movement to help investors make wise trading decisions. Also Read: Monero […]

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This year, the FEC announced that political candidates could accept donations in Bitcoin. While the guidelines are welcome, the FEC also capped the amount that could be donated to $100 in Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency per person each election period. This amount is far below the amounts you can donate in fiat. Along with the restriction, […]

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Barclays Bank, one of the largest banks in the world, has today issued a warning on the nascent digital currency Bitcoin arguing that it is not backed by any government or central bank and the deposits are not insured.  The warning follows numerous similar warnings by Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus in the aftermath of the […]

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Darkwallet instructional Transcription: Hi I’m Amanda Johnson, a writer at Bitcoin Magazine  and I’m here to show you how to install and use the features of the Dark Wallet. It is currently in it’s 6th version of alpha testing and this means it is known to be unstable. You can use the wallet with testnet Bitcoins or real Bitcoin. Go to darkwallet.is. The Dark Wallet runs in Chrome and Firefox browsers. Go ahead and get the source code zip file from the github page. Once you’ve unzipped the file, navigate to the Chrome extension url you see. Once there, click load the unpacked extension. Make sure you are in developer mode. When the install has completed you will see the […]

Bitcoin Magazine will be covering each member of  Swarm Class #1 leading up to their demo day next week on November 5th. We’ve written about Swarm, but for those who don’t know, Swarm rewards early backers by giving out more project coins at the start of a crowdsale. Eventually, as the project gets past certain milestones, those who toss bitcoin to help the project get assets tied to that project that are visible in a Counterparty Wallet. Ruben Alexander: How did you first get involved with video game development? Dan Mueller (CEO of Judobaby): I started in high school. I was working at a pizza place when I got a phone call from a friend of my brother. He said “I hear […]