CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST A Europol report has found that bitcoin is increasingly being used to pay for online child sex abuse broadcasted on legitimate websites and apps. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST While reading the interesting response by CCN journalist, Evander Smart, to a recent vote-of-no-confidence in Bitcoin value, it struck me that so many know so little about the block chain innovation. Price chart analysis and a brief value analysis are presented in today’s article. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. […] The post Bitcoin Value Is Indestructible Regardless of Price appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST German Bitcoin exchange bitcoin.de and Fidor Bank have announced a new “Bitcoin Express” option for Fidor Bank customers to buy and sell bitcoin instantly on the exchange. The new option addresses the delays involved in exchange transactions. Bitcoin exchanges like BitStamp, which are not licensed banks, must often wait hours or even days for a transaction to be cleared by an external bank. But because Fidor Bank is fully licensed, it is able to provide a direct interface to the mainstream banking system, eliminating transaction delays. As a result, holders of a “Fidor Smart Giro Account” are now able to purchase bitcoin directly from a bank account and receive bitcoin immediately after the purchase. They can also sell bitcoin to […] The post German Fidor Bank Brings Bitcoin to Mainstream Banking, Expands Overseas appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST CoinDesk spoke with Boston Fed researchers Stephanie Lo and J. Christina Wang about the central bank's recent thoughts on bitcoin. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST CoinDesk compares the top USD/BTC exchange platforms to see just how much they charge users to turn fiat money to digital currency. |
Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Decentral, Toronto’s home to tech start-ups, announced it’s organizing the 2015 Canadian Blockchain and Fintech Expo for the second week of September as a follow up to last year’s successful Bitcoin Expo. Toronto will again play host to Bitcoin enthusiasts as event organizers assemble a growing list of all-star speakers for the Expo, including Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood and Anthony Di Iorio of Ethereum, David Johnston of DApps Fund, Matthew Roszak of Tally Capital, Brock Pierce of ChangeTip, Tether, and the Bitcoin Foundation, David Bailey of BTC Media, Joel Dietz of Swarm, Paul Snow of Factum, Shawn Wilkinson of Storj, Jason King of Sean’s Outpost, Jamie Robinson of QuickBT, Jeff Coleman of Kryptokit, William Mougayar of Start-Up Management, Michael Terpin […] The post Decentral Announces 2015 Canadian Blockchain and Fintech Expo appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST A group of Finland-based traders has launched a cryptocurrency exchange, FinCCX, to allow users to exchange bitcoins for regular money and vice versa. FinCCX claims by offering lower fees and providing the chance for traders to earn commissions while trading, it delivers an improved user experience to bitcoin traders. Traders can exchange funds in bitcoin […] The post Bitcoin Exchange FinCCX Lets Users Earn Commission When Trading appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
Forbes, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Blockchain and LocalBitcoins users were bombarded with attacks on their accounts last year as hackers abused Tor's infrastructure with some tried and tested encryption stripping techniques and a neat trick to ensnare as many Bitcoin owners as possible. The hits were part of a hacker "war zone" that has emerged on Tor, where significant sums of money are being lost and won through illicit means, whilst people's supposedly-private emails are in danger too. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST *at least as far as can be confirmed. Various media outlets in the cryptocurrency space have decided that Ryan Kennedy (AKA Alex Green), the alleged thief of roughly 3,700 BTC from the coffers of failed exchange Mintpal, is currently in jail along with his accomplice, Chelsea Hopkins. Unfortunately for them, a slight amount of digging reveals […] The post Calm Down, Media: Alex Green is NOT* in Jail appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Over the weekend, I ran across a link to a Sputnik International opinion piece about Bitcoin called “Five Reasons the Bitcoin Revolution is over.” Never heard of Sputnik International before (it’s a multinational media corp that was just created last November). And this article doesn’t seem well-received, with eighty-nine “thumbs down” to just nine “thumbs […] The post 5 Reasons Why the Bitcoin Revolution has only just Begun appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |