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Bitcoin Press Release: Hong Kong based Bitcoin and Litecoin cloud mining provider ZeusHashhas announced an exciting new partnership with Gridseed and is offering reduced cloud mining prices and giveaways to celebrate Thanksgiving. After intensive top-level talks ZeusHash is excited to announce a new partnership with reliable Litecoin hashrate supplier Gridseed: one of the largest and most successful Scrypt miner producers in the world. This long-term strategic partnership will undoubtedly build the strongest alliance for Litecoin cloud hashing with the lowest prices – supported by the unbeatable success in developing Scrypt miners of both Gridseed and ZeusMiner. The partnership aims to provide customers with the best and most affordable Litecoin cloud hashing services in the world: “We will carry out in-depth […]

Bitcoin Press Release: Hong Kong based Bitcoin and Litecoin cloud mining provider ZeusHashhas announced an exciting new partnership with Gridseed and is offering reduced cloud mining prices and giveaways to celebrate Thanksgiving. After intensive top-level talks ZeusHash is excited to announce a new partnership with reliable Litecoin hashrate supplier Gridseed: one of the largest and most successful Scrypt miner producers in the world. This long-term strategic partnership will undoubtedly build the strongest alliance for Litecoin cloud hashing with the lowest prices – supported by the unbeatable success in developing Scrypt miners of both Gridseed and ZeusMiner. The partnership aims to provide customers with the best and most affordable Litecoin cloud hashing services in the world: “We will carry out in-depth […]

BitPay and BitStraat are launching Amsterdam Bitcoin City, a project aiming to establish Amsterdam as the 'bitcoin capital of the world'.

The Bitcoin core  just became the beneficiary of a lot more attention. The Bitcoin Foundation will soon hire a new full-time Bitcoin developer and provide Bitcoin developer training and certification. The Bitcoin Foundation has announced its decision to focus on Bitcoin core development. The Bitcoin Foundation, the first non-profit trade organization dedicated to Bitcoin that […]

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  Hellobit’s new money transfer app utilizes the Bitcoin network to help people send their own money globally. SAN JOSE, Calif.[DEMO2014] November 21, 2014 — San Francisco based Hellobit today debuted a service distinctly aimed at disrupting the $500+ billion a year money transfer industry used to send money home to families in emerging markets. International remittance is dominated by companies such as Western Union and MoneyGram, and used heavily to send money to India, Mexico, The Philippines and many other countries. “After traveling the country and vetting hundreds of companies on our DEMO Tour, we are excited to bring Hellobit as one of the few selected companies launching new products solving big problems at DEMO Fall 2014,” said Erick […]

The 16nm FinFET Solar chip will hit markets in early 2015. We were the first in the world to deliver 28nm and 20nm Bitcoin chip technology and we’re still the only producer capable of delivering 20nm tech in the Bitcoin space. We’ve been aiming for the next step for some time and as the most important contracts in this process have been finalized we can now proudly announce our active move down to the 16nm node with our new upcoming mining platform Solar – to be deployed in early 2015. The intellectual property involved in the new 16nm process represents a step change in processing capability as we’re using several proprietary techniques developed in-house to reach speeds on an order […]

  I sat down on 10/21/14 with my good friend and favorite NY artist Meghann at Premier Studios (the 1st major studio to accept Bitcoin) for a quick chat about the music scene in NY, her project “The City and the Heart”, Bitcoin, and a performance of my favorite song of hers “Can’t Carry Water”. Hope you like it as much as I do! http://www.meghannbwright.com/ https://thecityandtheheart.bandcamp.c… Special Thanks for www.PremierStudiosNY.com for hosting us, the first major recording studio to take bitcoin!

The Bitcoin Foundation has announced it will look to shed its public policy, education and outreach initiatives as it focuses on core development.

Bitreserve, a storage platform for bitcoin that touts transparency as a key feature, is raising $10m in funding from the general public.

Finnish regulators have classified bitcoin as a financial service, thus granting it VAT-exempt status.

Earlier this year, Phil Champagne released a book called the Book of Satoshi. Phil is the managing director of Wren Investment Group and has a background in computer software and electrical engineering. The Book of Satoshi presents the most relevant discussions in which the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, participated. The beginning chapters introduce the idea of Bitcoin and mining, how and why it works, and a brief introduction to cryptographic concepts behind it. All of the terms necessary to understand the majority of the book are clarified in these chapters. After the informative intro, the first ever post about Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto is presented. In the rest of the book, the rest of Satoshi’s most relevant posts and […]

New research that analyses bitcoin’s price fluctuations and usage patterns through empirical analysis has delivered some interesting results.

In another case of billionaires betting big on Bitcoin and the blockchain technology, a number of technology entrepreneurs have come together to work on a Bitcoin project. The group of entrepreneurs who have previously worked with companies such as LinkedIn, Sun Microsystems and Yahoo have so far contributed a total of US$ 21 million to […]

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Stealth startup CryptoLabs has announced it will launch a pocket-sized, multisig bitcoin hardware wallet called Case in 2015.

At the same time of the second police operation against the centralized Darkmarkets under Tor, we had big important releases of the new generation darkmarkets, Openbazaar and NXT FreeMarket. They come with the desire to become the norm in e-commerce and the main reason is that they are decentralized, implying that the nodes holding the network are distributed throughout the world which, therefore, eliminates the increased vulnerability of centralized markets under Tor (i.e. single point of failure attacks). Not only that, decentralized darkmarkets promise a number of features that surpass those offered by sites like eBay, Aliexpress or Amazon, as multisignature escrow, P2P lending, low fees, Ricardian contracts, decentralized arbiters system… Darkmarkets are working as decentralized and distributed organizations. Will […]

CryptoLabs, a new Bitcoin technology development startup, launched a hardware Bitcoin wallet that allows users to store buy, send, sell and receive the digital currency, TechCrunch reports. CryptoLabs founder Melanie Shapiro the pursuit of security has created complexity and led to an extremely cumbersome experience, destroying any incentive for the average user to adopt Bitcoin. […]

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A Factom white paper outlines a way to prove the authenticity of records or other data on the blockchain.

The Scotcoin Project announced that they are to phase out the existing ‘standalone’ SHA256 Scotcoin network and fully migrate to the Counterparty solution, as a Digital Asset, utilizing the Bitcoin network infrastructure. Derek Nisbet, Founder of Scotcoin said: “Following on from the successful launch and subsequent roll out of Scotcoin directly to the Scottish people, […]

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The Scotcoin Project announced that they are to phase out the existing ‘standalone’ SHA256 Scotcoin network and fully migrate to the Counterparty solution, as a Digital Asset, utilizing the Bitcoin network infrastructure. Derek Nisbet, Founder of Scotcoin said: “Following on from the successful launch and subsequent roll out of Scotcoin directly to the Scottish people, […]

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Flixforcoins.com is a site that allows movie fans to purchase tickets for their favorite box office hits with bitcoin. It is a unique site dedicated to promoting the use of bitcoins in everyday transactions.  Movie tickets can be purchased through flixforcoins.com, much like similar sites, except bitcoins are the currency accepted for payment rather than traditional methods such as debit or credit. Buyers can use the currency to purchase tickets for popular films playing in theatres across the US or Canada. We’ve just launched our website and we are offering $2.00 USD off a movie ticket with promotional code “bitcoinmagazine” until December 30th, 2014.

Cryptoart combines fine art and Bitcoin for the modern art collector; launches holiday shopping event November 17, 2014/Houston, TX — Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday have a new contender for retailers’ economic cheer: Bitcoin Black Friday. As Bitcoin users grow exponentially, smarter retailers are positioning themselves for the demand. One such retailer is Cryptoart founder Troy Fearnow. Fearnow’s fine art site Cryptoart.com is launching a special campaign for Bitcoin users on Bitcoin Black Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Cryptoart is the leading purveyor of one-of-a-kind and limited edition pieces of fine art for the crypto consumer. Several pieces have been featured in Bitcoin Magazine and the company appeared on the cover in August 2014. Cryptoart has more than […]

Bitcoin Press Release: Progressive gaming cryptocurrency Hyper hosts a two week long competition enabling gamers to win $100 steam code, one of many competitions rewarding gamers and Hyper adopters worldwide.   Launched in May 2014 the HYPER development team now spans the globe with members in the US, Europe and Asia with HYPER currently trading on US based cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex. The team is excited to announce a $100 steam game code competition running for 2 weeks that anyone can enter for the chance to win a $100 steam game code for free. HYPER runs many competitions on custom servers where players can win HYPER simply for playing Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Assetto Corsa racing, Rust and many more games. As solid […]

CoinDirect is a Bitcoin service that allows merchants to accept Bitcoin in the true spirit of Bitcoin, with zero processing fees and zero fiat processing. CoinDirect uses Electrum, the first hierarchical deterministic Bitcoin wallet to operate. The news in the Bitcoin world is often focused on large names in the technology industry that have started […]

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Ponzi scheme: A fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. Many of the under-informed, the under-educated, and the under-control masses have lobbed this parting shot at Bitcoin over the years. People tend […]

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Bitcoin has a lot of potential for retailers, we’ve heard. It allows merchants to bypass the big transaction fees of credit card companies, it can make payments more secure, faster, easier, and helps protect customers from identity theft and fraud. But in this early stage in Bitcoin’s growth, acceptance has still sparse and the utilization […]

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Today, Coinbase announced the release of a new bitcoin tip button for accepting micropayments anywhere on the web. This new feature can be added to any web page and allows visitors to tip using their Coinbase account or another bitcoin wallet. Setup is easy and requires nothing more than an account with Coinbase. Bitcoin has furthered […]

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Coinkite one of the most secure and useful online Bitcoin Wallets has expanded its multiple signature service to expand to up to 15 members. The expansion and cosigning tool will allow businesses more options and flexibility with their Bitcoin usage, management and security. The new security tool will allow for multiple levels of approvals as […]

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