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Speaking to CoinDesk, Blockstream's Austin Hill and Adam Back discuss how they will mobilize their recent $21m in funding.

ChangeTip is reporting a surge in bitcoin tips completed via its service, with 10,000 transactions completed in one day last week.

Cryptocurrency mining hardware designer KnCMiner is planning to deploy its next generation ASICs in early 2015.

It wasn’t too long ago when Apple blocked bitcoin apps from being available through its App Store. Who could forget the angry bitcoin users destroying iPhones because of it!? Still, Apple’s decision to reverse its anti-bitcoin app policy and allow mobile wallets onto the iOS platform only dates back to about five months ago. Also read: Blockchain iPhone […]

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CFTC commissioner Mark Wetjen has said the agency is authorised to take enforcement actions against price manipulation in bitcoin markets.

The state motto of New Hampshire is “Live Free or Die”. In January 1776, it became the first of the British North American colonies to establish a government independent of Great Britain’s authority. So is it any wonder that it may indeed be the most Bitcoin-friendly place in the Unites States? The new film “101 Reasons: […]

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Counterparty seems unstoppable these days. Its founders held a Reddit AMA yesterday to update the participants on several ground-breaking projects. AMA means “Ask Me Anything” – Reddit users can ask the host all sorts of questions about any topic. Many Bitcoin personalities have hosted Reddit AMAs to connect with a global online audience, including Julian […]

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Serving up bottles of select vine varieties, Picnic Wine Co. was the first winery dedicated to selling wine exclusively for bitcoin. Emblazoned on their bitcoinwine.com homepage, a prominently displayed mission statement reads, “Let’s stay in Bitcoin, shall we? The bigger the ecosystem grows, the fewer reasons to go back and forth between fiat . . . Close the loop.” A product of the millennial generation, Picnic Wine Co. was founded by three school friends, Grant Hemingway, Jeff Anderson, and Zach Bryant, with a knack for entrepreneurial ventures. Hemingway and Anderson are the winemakers of the business, crafting highly acclaimed wines, while Anderson handles the business end of the vinting. Anderson, hailing from Pomona College with a major in Economics, described […]

In certain corners of the crypto community, ‘Decentralized Autonomous Companies’ (DACs), or ‘Distributed Autonomous Organisations’ (DAOs) are all the rage. In the same way that Bitcoin is decentralizing money, DACs seem to offer the potential to decentralize the entire world of business, commerce, finance, and the economy. They are businesses that can potentially be owned and run by their customers and their ‘employees’, with no single owner, and, like Bitcoin, no central authority to act as a board of directors. They are, to some people, a big step on the road to greater freedom and autonomy in our own working lives and an antidote to the corruption and crony capitalism of our current corporate world, and the dehumanising influence that […]

Coinbase has announced a new micropayments tool it hopes will encourage bitcoin tipping to online content providers.

Changetip is an awesome tool that is used to give money to anyone else via a variety of social media methods. The current mediums that Changetip supports are Github, Google Plus, Reddit, StockTwits, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube (Facebook coming soon), with a brief and concise explanation on how to tip to anyone you wish via each medium. You can even send and receive tips directly via the tipme page; an example is, http://your.name.tip.me, which is a much friendlier on the eyes way to provide someone your bitcoin address. One of the brilliant things about Changetip is the ease of which a user can sign into their Changetip account, with just a simple click a user can login via any of their various social media accounts (as listed […]

 At the inception of the commercial web, it was arguably a mistake that the industry went down an advertising-based route for supporting content. Some have speculated that had payments been built into the browser and the web itself, we would have substantially different online properties from search to social networking to online media. Perhaps that reality can be corrected with Bitcoin.… Read More

Industry representatives discussed all manner of bitcoin issues at Bloomberg's bitcoin conference yesterday, but regulation was the hot topic.

Coinffeine is a distributed FIAT- Bitcoin exchange technology which enables banks and payment processors to offer Bitcoin services without touching Bitcoin. The strategy of Bankinter with this movement is not only to participate in the capital of the company but also to be one of the main clients of Coinffeine in the future. The Spanish bank Bankinter has invested in the capital of Coinffeine, through the Bankinter Innovation Fundation. With this movement, Bankinter becomes one of the first banks in the world dealing with Bitcoin ecosystem. Funded last June by 4 engineers as the first company in the world using Bitcoin as social capital, Coinffeine is developing a distributed platform to exchange FIAT to cryptocurrencies in a secure and anonymous […]

GoUrl’s Bitcoin Monetiser online platform allows users to sell their online content such as Music, documents, images, and video for various cryptocurrencies. Users of the platform can create their own custom URL, upload their content, then set the USD or crypto amount required to unlock the content. Users of the platform can monetize anything they […]

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The Bitcoin price rally has resumed after a couple of deep corrections during the past days. Analysis explores the state of trend and considers upside price targets as well as what to expect in the coming days. Bitcoin Price Rally Resumes Summary Comments Bitcoin Price Rally Time of analysis: 08h00 UTC Asian Session The Bitcoin […]

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Bitcoin 2.0 development is becoming more and more popular. While browsing Twitter, I found a project that did not have a lot of media attention. This project, called the Decentral Bank, is a p2p decentralized network that connects to form voting pools that can be used for redeeming withdrawal requests even when an entity has […]

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Throughout its brief lifespan, Blackcoin has defied expectations and found success in the wild-west of the altcoin markets by innovating with features such as Blackhalo. However, the Blackcoin price has declined quite a bit since peaking in mid-April. The Blackcoin price decline continued over the past week. CCN examines this altcoin price decline. Also Read: […]

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A bitcoin exchange called mcxNOW announced on their website today that they’ve decided to enter a new phase of development and business evolution. The new team plans to take over the bitcoin exchange, giving it one of the worst rebrands I’ve ever seen from a bitcoin business, or any business for that matter. Formerly known […]

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Wedbush Securities, a leading financial service provider, has announced a relationship with Bitcoin trading platform, Buttercoin. This relationship will extend the company’s reach into the sphere of cryptocurrency technology. The investment amount made by Wedbush Securities is undisclosed. Buttercoin’s platform allows users a fast, easy, and safe way to trade Bitcoin. Also read: Mozilla Firefox Internet […]

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The USMS has revealed it will split up its auction of Ross Ulbricht's seized bitcoin to reduce negative effects on the bitcoin market.

Want a virtual piece of law enforcement history? You're about to get your chance. The US Marshal's Service is holding an auction on December 4th that will sell off 50,000 Bitcoins from Ross Ulbricht (aka Dread Pirate Roberts), the founder of the...