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Mirror provides escrow and liquidity services for institutional bitcoin investors, aiming to make BTC a safer investment class.

The recent Bitcoin price run has been a long time coming to many observers. BitPay, recently in the news a lot regarding their landmark partnership with ESPN to launch a Bitcoin Bowl, and other large Bitcoin companies are poised to benefit from increased attention and activity in the Bitcoin world. The recent take down of Silk […]

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Trucoin will debut a custom bitcoin ATM solution at the upcoming Bitcoin St Petersburg Bowl.

Mozilla Firefox is taking a huge stand for internet privacy. Let’s face it: privacy is one of the major forces pushing many cryptocurrencies forward. For example, Darkcoin and Anoncoin are two projects focused directly on keeping transactions as private as possible. Even Bitcoin builds on the back of private financial lifestyle philosophies. Privacy is important […]

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On Tuesday, the bitcoin price rallied, passing the $400 threshold and reaching $426.08 at press time. The bitcoin price increase has had a negative effect on altcoin prices. Most of the top altcoins have experienced price decreases in the past 24 hours. Bitcoin Price Explosion Leads to Altcoin Price Drop The bitcoin price rose more […]

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On Tuesday, the bitcoin price rallied, passing the $400 threshold and reaching $426.08 at press time. The bitcoin price increase has had a negative effect on altcoin prices. Most of the top altcoins have experienced price decreases in the past 24 hours. Bitcoin Price Explosion Leads to Altcoin Price Drop The bitcoin price rose more […]

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Intuit and BitPay announced the integration of Bitcoin payments into the Quickbooks PayByCoin service. The integration will allow the company to offer the option of paying by Bitcoin to their customers. The integration also allows for next day settlement in their bank accounts as well. The quick deposit to their bank accounts will help companies […]

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Counterparty announced that its developers have successfully ported the Ethereum Project’s programming language over to the Counterparty platform, enabling users to save and execute Turing Complete Ethereum code on the Bitcoin blockchain. With this new development, Counterparty makes it possible to execute Ethereum smart contracts on the more secure Bitcoin blockchain. Also read: Gavin Andresen […]

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The bitcoin price has surged past $400 for the first time since September, gaining over 9% today.

Online developers' marketplace Codementor has integrated bitcoin for payments and payouts for its online mentoring service.

After almost one month where the Bitcoin price has been floating below 350 USD per BTC (and even lower), the price has recently increased drastically. For the first time since October 15th, 2014, we might see a Bitcoin worth more than 400 dollars. Also read: “How to Trade Bitcoin“ The third quarter of 2014 has […]

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Trouble may be brewing for some of the leading bitcoin faucet operators, as problems persist with three of the main micro wallets used by sites in this area of the bitcoin ecosystem. The market has been dominated up to now by three different operators – Microwallet.org, Coinbox.me and BitChest.me – which for years have steadily churned out bitcoins to thousands of bitcoin users. However, in recent weeks Bitchest stopped dispensing, and their bitcoin wallet address has gone quiet. Now in the last few days, Microwallet.org put up a notice that there was a bug with the Blockchain.info API, and was offline yesterday, but back up again today with a notice saying that withdrawals will be processed in the next 24 hours. So can these issues be overcome, […]

A conference in Singapore last week explored bitcoin's status as a currency and digital currencies' role in mainstream finance.

Reddcoin–the self-declare “social currency“–was one of several altcoins to experience price spikes during June and July. The Reddcoin price rose so far that it even briefly challenged Dogecoin on the market cap charts. However, the Reddcoin price has fallen 70% since then. CCN examines this altcoin price decline. Also Read: Reddcoin Announces Social Wallet and […]

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Reddcoin–the self-declare “social currency“–was one of several altcoins to experience price spikes during June and July. The Reddcoin price rose so far that it even briefly challenged Dogecoin on the market cap charts. However, the Reddcoin price has fallen 70% since then. CCN examines this altcoin price decline. Also Read: Reddcoin Announces Social Wallet and […]

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Genecoin samples your DNA, turns it into data, and stores it in the world’s most powerful supercomputer: the Bitcoin network.  The company is still in its very early stages, and at this moment they are evaluating public interest in their service proposal. If you find the idea to store your genome in the blockchain intriguing, […]

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Deputy governor Grant Spencer of the New Zealand Reserve Bank commented on digital currency during his speech at the Payments New Zealand conference in Auckland. His feelings toward digital currency looks hopeful and positive compared to the response from other countries. “As the currency issuer, the Reserve Bank does not feel threatened by Bitcoin which […]

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Mark Karpeles is back in the headlines with a recent interview with PC World. Beyond launching some new services and returning to Twitter over the last several months, Karpeles has otherwise been reticent about talking about Bitcoin to the press since such conversations invariably lead to the failed Mt. Gox. Karpeles gave IDG News Services, operator of […]

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One fund manager thinks Bitcoin could be worth $1,000,000 USD after some envelope-back analysis from “a while ago.” Former Global Macro Investor Group manager Raoul Pal has been predicting Bitcoin’s price based on a comparison with gold for over a year now. Despite asserting that Bitcoin could be worth $100,000 or $1,000,000 each, Pal still only […]

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Yesterday, reddit user steeevemadden made a post on /r/Bitcoin proposing a “Tipping Tuesday”: a day during which Bitcoiners donate via ChangeTip to charitable organizations over Twitter. Surprisingly, the proposal took off, and many Bitcoiners are participating in this event actively. Roughly every minute, a new tip is sent over Twitter. You can check the tips […]

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BitPay, a leading bitcoin payment processing company, recently partnered with ESPN to sponsor the 2014 St. Petersburg Bowl, also known as the Bitcoin Bowl. The post-season college football game pits one Atlantic Coast Conference team against another from the American Athletic Conference, two highly popular conferences both with enormous American fanbases. Also Read: BitPay Plans to […]

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Crypto enthusiasts everywhere longing for contemporary oil paintings for their homes or offices now have a destination at the newest online art gallery, Bitpaintings.com. Launched in late September out of San Antonio, Texas by artist, Irina Bezruchko, Bitpaintings aims squarely at the enthusiast with several vibrant examples of Bitcoin-centric paintings that speak directly to the soul of Bitcoiners worldwide. Notable paintings such as “A Tsunami is Coming”, and “Atlas Unchained” address broad, sweeping metaphorical and ideological undertones inherent to the Bitcoin space. “We are attempting something that has never been done before in this space…integrating underlying metaphors through art and digital currency, sometimes in a way that combines them both in a single piece”, says artist Irina Bezruchko. Notably, her […]