CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Will 2015 be the year of the Decentralized Bitcoin exchange? 2014 and the very beginning of 2015 has seen major problems for two mighty Bitcoin exchanges: Bitstamp and Mt. Gox. Untold numbers of holders lost in excess of $500 million between the two failures, both of which appear to have been initiated by internal enemies […] The post Is 2015 the Year of the Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange? appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Bitcoin shopping startup Purse.io is to offer users a $10,000 protection plan to cover any purchases made using its service. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Bitcoin trading pushed the Bitcoin Price above our upper channel trendline and, today, declined during the Asian and European sessions from $303 to $282 (BitFinex) and slight recovery since. The market must now show us what it intends to do as trade has halted decline on a lower channel trendline. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of analysis: […] The post Bitcoin Trading Pushes Bitcoin Price Under $300 appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The CFTC's Mark Wetjen tells CoinDesk how his agency might investigate bitcoin market manipulation and why it might not engage the industry in 2015. |
The Economist, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Terror in Paris Fly Title: Bitcoin Rubric: The rise and fall of the crypto-currency is good news for authors at least Main image: 20150110_BKD001_0.jpg The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order. By Paul Vigna and Michael Casey. St Martin’s Press; 343 pages; $27.99. Buy from Amazon.com BITCOIN may well be the world’s worst-performing currency. In 2014 it lost more than half of its value against the dollar, beating even Ukraine’s hryvnia and the Russian rouble. But measured by the number of new books it has inspired, bitcoin is top of the pile. Nearly 200 titles about the crypto-currency came out last year, according to Amazon. Another dozen will hit the shelves in the coming months. Be warned, though, some are pretty bad. Brian Kelly, an investment manager and talking head on CNBC, takes several stabs in “The Bitcoin Big Bang” at explaining how the crypto-currency works, only to confuse ... |
The Economist, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Terror in Paris Fly Title: Bitcoin Rubric: Minting the digital currency has become a big, ruthlessly competitive business Location: BODEN, SWEDEN Main image: Deep down in the bitcoin mine Deep down in the bitcoin mine A HUGE aircraft hangar in Boden, in northern Sweden, big enough to hold a dozen helicopters, is now packed with computers—45,000 of them, each with a whirring fan to stop it overheating. The machines (pictured) work ceaselessly, trying to solve fiendishly difficult mathematical puzzles. The solutions are, in themselves, unimportant. Yet by solving the puzzles, the computers earn their owners a reward in bitcoin, a digital “crypto-currency”. The machines in Boden are in competition with hundreds of thousands more worldwide. The first to solve a puzzle earns 25 bitcoins, currently worth $6,900. Since bitcoin’s invention in 2008 by a mysterious figure calling himself Satoshi ... |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST SaruTobi, a game that tips players in bitcoin, has been released on Apple's iTunes store. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The amount of academic research centred on bitcoin has risen sharply in the last year, financial analyst and author Brett Scott has found. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The US Treasury Department has announced plans to reassess regulations on financial and banking access for Money Services Businesses (MSB) by inviting members of the MSB industry to bring up concerns to a roundtable discussion scheduled for next week. In anticipation for the meeting, the Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC), an advocacy organization on Capitol […] The post Regulation on Bitcoin Industry’s Banking Access Could Change appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Chris Odom of the Swiss firm Monetas recently wrote an article in the Montes blog about the rise of a new kind of inflation that has to be dealt with, and he used the case of Mt. Gox and what happened there as an example. Read also: Japanese Police Suspect 99% of Mt. Gox Bitcoins […] The post Mt. Gox As a Lesson in a New Kind of Inflation appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Harborly, a service that lets customers buy and sell bitcoins using their local currency, has decided to base its U.S. headquarters in Texas due to the state’s favorable environment for Bitcoin companies. Also read: Texas Congressman Steve Stockman Introduces HR 5777: “To Protect Cryptocurrencies” Texas Has a Favorable Regulatory Environment for Bitcoin Companies Choosing a […] The post Bitcoin Service Harborly Moves to Texas for Favorable Bitcoin Environment appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Known to many as “Bitcoin Jesus,” Bitcoin super-investor and activist Roger Ver has run into major problems recently. Ver famously renounced his United States citizenship in 2014 and was denied a traveling visa this week by U.S. consulate officials. This being his latest attempt to visit Miami to attend an upcoming Bitcoin conference. Roger Ver has […] The post Roger Ver Denied US Entry to Attend Bitcoin Conference appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Amid reports that cloud mining payouts have ceased, signs have emerged that bitcoin mining firm CoinTerra is experiencing debt problems. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Precious metals dealer Amagi Metals has announced a partnership with bitcoin payroll processor Bitwage that will allow Amagi to pay the company’s entire staff in bitcoin. Employees still have the option to receive a portion of their salaries in fiat, but all employees will receive at least a portion of their salary in bitcoin. Also […] The post Amagi Metals to Pay Entire Staff in Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |