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Bitcoin price is advancing after crossing above another longterm trendline drawn from the November 2013 all-time high. A bumpy ascent looks set to continue as price struggles through layers of divergence and resistance toward $300 / 1870 CNY. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not […]

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Bitcoin-centric social network ZapChain is moving into micropayments with the integration of a new in-house tipping mechanism.

The Bitcoin Foundation has faced scrutiny in the past for multiple reasons. As of now, however, it seems the Foundation is a taking sharp turn to redirect the operation. Some of their self-admitted challenges include reputation struggles, lack of focus, declining membership revenue, falling bitcoin price and a weak balance sheet. In its latest press release, the Foundation says it is refocusing its efforts “to instill some organizational discipline around reducing expenses, eliminating distractions and focusing on revenue-generating activities.” Additionally, the Foundation has announced that over the last two months it has been focusing on core development and other ways of producing revenue. Staff reduction and other cost-cutting measures also have been put in place to further support Bitcoin research and […]

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This week on Decentral Talk Live, hosts Ethan Wilding and Anthony Di Iorio have a new slate of guests covering topics like tipping, the ways companies get financing and pay employees in the bitcoin space, and the latest developments at Kraken. We’ll start with Justin Maxwell of Tibdit who will answer the questions: What’s a “tib” and what’s a “dit”? And how will Tibdit help to level the playing field, by making the internet more of a meritocracy for content providers? Similarly, Toronto-based http://cryptiv.com/ seeks to make tipping and microtransactions through its online wallet simple and fun. This crypto-agnostic system is designed to work across various social media platforms. Founder Mat Cybula drops in to Decentral Talk Live to chat […]

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HONG KONG and London, UK March 9th, 2015. Today, Tether and Factom jointly announced a partnership wherein Tether will leverage the Factom technology to enhance their transparency and audit strategy, and the Factom Foundation will use Tether as an important part of its asset allocation strategy.   Tether.to Wallet Transparency Tether.to uses Factom for time-stamping and replication of its wallet database Tether.to’s wallet transparency strategy focuses on eliminating trust through decentralization and cryptography. The Factom technology uses the same cryptography behind Bitcoin to mathematically prove the existence of any data it receives by hashing that data and embedding the resultant traces into the Bitcoin blockchain. This creates a provably time-stamped record keeping system capable of maintaining a near real-time, unforgeable […]

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A group of researchers from Princeton University, Stanford University and the City University of New York, have announced a new ECDSA threshold signature scheme that is particularly well-suited for securing Bitcoin wallets. Threshold signatures can be thought of as “stealth multi-signatures.” The new Bitcoin security scheme is detailed in a research paper titled “Securing Bitcoin wallets via a new DSA/ECDSA threshold signature scheme.” The announcement follows three previous posts by Steven Goldfeder on the Freedom to Tinker blog, hosted by Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Goldfeder is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton, interested in cryptography, security, privacy and decentralized digital currencies. Bitcoin […]

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Clients have prompted Elegant, a Belgium-based green electricity company, to accept bitcoin payments.

Four months into his role as executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, Patrick Murck believes the organization has turned a corner. In a letter to CCN, Murck said the Foundation can meet its mission of promoting research and development of Bitcoin Core and advance the development of an open and participatory digital economy. He noted […]

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Sunday was International Women’s Day, when the Bitcoin community is joined with others around the world to promote awareness of women’s issues by launching its first Bitcoin Women’s Day. Like International Women’s Day, “Bitcoin Women’s Day is not just for women,” says Sarah Boone Martin of the Digital Currency Council. The issues that women are concerned about – equal access to healthcare, to financial systems, to the world economy, to employment, to education; a sustainable environment, personal safety, security and autonomy – these are all issues that are important to the Bitcoin community as a whole. The purpose of Bitcoin Women’s Day can be broken down into three key goals: first, to celebrate the accomplishments of women in the space; […]

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The bitcoin price continues to trade well above the $250 mark as trading volumes grow on global exchanges including Bitfinex and Huobi.

More competition would be a better solution than regulation—and that’s where Bitcoin could help.

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Messaging could be the logical starting point for digital currency adoption, according to the CEO of bitcoin-enabled chat app Wiper.

We all know that trying to time the market is nearly impossible. But that doesn’t mean we don’t gripe when we realize we ignored the fundamentals and missed out on a major upswing.

Hump the Bundle is a porn site with a charitable twist, taking its name as a mimicry from Humble Bundle. Run by Humpy Leftnut, they have been in existence for nearly three months and have already raised over $15,000 for charity. The day after our /r/bitcoin thread, bundle #2 was at 25.91% of total transactions […]

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Whenever I need a laugh, I read a mainstream publication’s assessment of Bitcoin, from the outside looking in. Many are merely mouthpieces, printed microphones for the current ruling global elite. They tell the masses what to believe, give them ten percent of the story, from the current ruler’s purview, and then call it a day. […]

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