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Agora Commodities has announced it will rebrand under the name Crypto Bullion Group, a decision that finds it bolstering its commitment to bitcoin.

CryptoLabs, led by Melanie Shapiro, is working on a new “Case,” a Bitcoin hardware wallet that will set a new standard for security and ease-of-use. The CryptoLabs Case will soon undergo its first manufacturing run, and sales will begin once products are ready to ship. As with any new entrant to the Bitcoin space, skepticism runs […]

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BitFury, a leading Bitcoin transaction processing and Bitcoin infrastructure provider, has announced that Young Sohn, Samsung Electronics president and chief strategy officer, has been added to their strategic advisory board. Young has been the president and chief strategy officer for Samsung Electronics since 2012. In addition to his laudable work at Samsung Electronics, Sohn has 30 years of […]

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NCR Silver product manager Reggie Kimble discusses why the 100-year-old payments giant has embraced bitcoin as a small business payment solution.

The MT Gox saga is quickly becoming a distant memory, but as a second creditors meeting nears, voices are being raised and calls for resignations are starting to be made as creditors begin to lose patience. At the heart of the mystery is the alleged disappearance of – initially – 850,000 bitcoins. In an intriguing […]

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When John and I were invited to speak at Libertopia this year, I was extremely excited about the prospect of visiting California again. The last time I had been that far West was February of 2011 for the Freedom Law School Conference in Ontario, California. I happened to be pregnant at the time and I also happened to be selected for the body scanner when trying to board our flight home. To make a long story short, we had to take a train back to Texas and I have not flown since. Since we knew we would need to drive, I thought a second Uncoinventional Bitcoin-only family road trip was in order. This would allow us to see what has […]

A website subtitled “You are going to hate it” is certainly an attention catcher, and the proposal of Slur.io catches attention very much indeed: Slur.io will be an open source, decentralized and anonymous marketplace for the selling of secret information in exchange for Bitcoin. Slur will operate over the Tor network. Both buyers and sellers […]

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Bitcoin requires forceful and aggressive legal defense, not complicity with governments in crafting policy and regulations.

Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers, which also supports decentralized mailing lists (DML, or “chans.”). The concept for Bitmessage was conceived by software developer Jonathan Warren, who based its design on Bitcoin. The open source Bitmessage software was released in November 2012 under […]

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Bitcoin, Ripple, Litecoin and other cryptocurrencies have the potential to revamp everything from how we split the check to how we buy our homes. Stanford business school professor Susan Athey explains how.

Bitcoin, Ripple, Litecoin and other cryptocurrencies have the potential to revamp everything from how we split the check to how we buy our homes. Stanford business school professor Susan Athey explains how.

Bitcoin, Ripple, Litecoin and other cryptocurrencies have the potential to revamp everything from how we split the check to how we buy our homes. Stanford business school professor Susan Athey explains how.

A majority of all bitcoins in circulation have not moved in over six months, according to a new analysis.

It’s difficult to think of the huge computing power dedicated to Bitcoin and altcoin mining, much higher than the combined computing power of the 500 most powerful supercomputers on the planet, without thinking that perhaps all that computing power should be put to good use. The Bitcoin network can be thought of a distributed supercomputer […]

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It’s difficult to think of the huge computing power dedicated to Bitcoin and altcoin mining, much higher than the combined computing power of the 500 most powerful supercomputers on the planet, without thinking that perhaps all that computing power should be put to good use. The Bitcoin network can be thought of a distributed supercomputer […]

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What do the actions of central bankers in East Asia have to do with the bitcoin price? Quite a bit, as it turns out.

Bitcoin mining has evolved rapidly over the past few years. From CPUs, to GPUs, to FPGAs, to ASICs, the most up-to-date and powerful miners change constantly. When the first ASIC miners were shipped to customers in early 2013, miners became incredibly more powerful than before. Among the first ASIC miners announced was the Block Erupter […]

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What were you doing at age 17? I had already graduated from high school, and was dating a college professor, but that’s another story for another day. Most are enjoying life as a Junior or Senior, without getting your head dunked in the toilet like a freshman. Planning summer vacations, applying to colleges and studying […]

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Disclosure: I own stake in a variety of the assets related to Supernet projects. Soft launch of the Supernet v0 wallet was announced November 14th by James on the Slack channels with a cheerful: “Supernet v0 launched yesterday, took everyone by surprise. gotta love decentralization :)” -JL777 Users of the Supernet may now withdraw Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin and NXT directly out to Visa and Mastercards around the globe! Payouts are done in US dollars and local banks set fiat exchange rate. This is a server provided by Coinomat. Users can also be relieved to trade on the first live decentralized crypto currency exchange! The software is available for download at the Multigateway website and functions similar to the NXT wallet client, […]

Disclosure: I own stake in a variety of the assets related to Supernet projects. Soft launch of the Supernet v0 wallet was announced November 14th by James on the Slack channels with a cheerful: “Supernet v0 launched yesterday, took everyone by surprise. gotta love decentralization :)” -JL777 Users of the Supernet may now withdraw Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin and NXT directly out to Visa and Mastercards around the globe! Payouts are done in US dollars and local banks set fiat exchange rate. This is a server provided by Coinomat. Users can also be relieved to trade on the first live decentralized crypto currency exchange! The software is available for download at the Multigateway website and functions similar to the NXT wallet client, […]

Disclosure: I own stake in a variety of the assets related to Supernet projects. Soft launch of the Supernet v0 wallet was announced November 14th by James on the Slack channels with a cheerful: “Supernet v0 launched yesterday, took everyone by surprise. gotta love decentralization :)” -JL777 Users of the Supernet may now withdraw Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin and NXT directly out to Visa and Mastercards around the globe! Payouts are done in US dollars and local banks set fiat exchange rate. This is a server provided by Coinomat. Users can also be relieved to trade on the first live decentralized crypto currency exchange! The software is available for download at the Multigateway website and functions similar to the NXT wallet client, […]

Disclosure: I own stake in a variety of the assets related to Supernet projects. Soft launch of the Supernet v0 wallet was announced November 14th by James on the Slack channels with a cheerful: “Supernet v0 launched yesterday, took everyone by surprise. gotta love decentralization :)” -JL777 Users of the Supernet may now withdraw Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin and NXT directly out to Visa and Mastercards around the globe! Payouts are done in US dollars and local banks set fiat exchange rate. This is a server provided by Coinomat. Users can also be relieved to trade on the first live decentralized crypto currency exchange! The software is available for download at the Multigateway website and functions similar to the NXT wallet client, […]

Welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, where we cover some of the top stories of the week here on CryptoCoins News. This week (16 November to 23 November), we wondered whether Satoshi Nakamoto was/is an NSA worker, looked at an encrypted Skype replacement called “Tox,” started preparing for Bitcoin Black Friday 2014, and […]

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The Dogecoin price climbed 25% from November 18-23. Most of that movement took place on November 22, when the Dogecoin price leaped 11 satoshis to its current mark of 72. CCN examines this altcoin price increase to help investors make informed trading decisions. Also read: Four GIFs That Perfectly Explain The Bitcoin/Dogecoin Relationship Dogecoin Price […]

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The Dogecoin price climbed 25% from November 18-23. Most of that movement took place on November 22, when the Dogecoin price leaped 11 satoshis to its current mark of 72. CCN examines this altcoin price increase to help investors make informed trading decisions. Also read: Four GIFs That Perfectly Explain The Bitcoin/Dogecoin Relationship Dogecoin Price […]

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The Dogecoin price climbed 25% from November 18-23. Most of that movement took place on November 22, when the Dogecoin price leaped 11 satoshis to its current mark of 72. CCN examines this altcoin price increase to help investors make informed trading decisions. Also read: Four GIFs That Perfectly Explain The Bitcoin/Dogecoin Relationship Dogecoin Price […]

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