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New Jersey is known for many things. As a burial ground for New York mobsters. Home to an impressive array of environmentally toxic factories. Atlantic City is the established gambling capital of the Eastern United States. Newark, New Jersey: one of the United States’s most criminal-minded cities. And a catchy state tourism jingle “New Jersey and […]

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Bitcoin price has advanced from the low in five clear waves and is above the contention levels 1500 CNY and $243. Also, elsewhere in CCN today, xbt.social announces unprecedented gains in its first six weeks of trading. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a […]

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In an attempt to incentivize more Bitcoin and blockchain applications, Coinbase has announced the second edition of its Bitcoin Hackathon. Developers will compete for $70,000 worth of prizes going to five winners, with one of them having the chance to win a spot in a BoostVC accelerator class. According to the announcement page, Coinbase is looking for “apps which highlight new use cases for Bitcoin, making bitcoin easier to use for wider audiences. Your app can be bitcoin-focused, or it can use Bitcoin technology to power the user experience.” The goal is to have a product that is demonstrates a new use case for Bitcoin or simplifies the use of Bitcoin. “Basic products like consumer wallets and merchant tools are more broadly adopted than […]

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When Canadian exchange Cavirtex closed its doors in February, there was a lot of speculation about the reasons it shut down, but few expected the exchange to come back to life. Cavirtex shut down amid security concerns after a major breach. Now, New York-based digital currencies exchange Coinsetter is expanding into the Canadian market by buying previously closed exchange Cavirtex for close to $2 million, according to Fortune Magazine. Coinsetter, which specializes in institutional trading for investment firms, is confident it can win back all of Cavirtex’s old customers in Canada and grow its presence there. Cavirtex may have stiff competition in Canada In a bold statement, Coinsetter CEO Jaron Lukasiewicz was quoted as saying there were currently no good exchanges for the Canadian market. In fact, […]

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March 21, 2015. Los Angeles, CA – On April 18th, 2015, for the first time in downtown Los Angeles, the State of Digital Money will paint a picture of a future vision shaped by the leaders of the digital currency community. Key speakers include, Jeff Garzk, Bitcoin core developer at Bitpay, Brock Pierce, Founder and Managing Partner at Blockchain Capital, Steve Beauregard, Co-Founder and CEO at GoCoin, and Connie Gallippi, Founder and Executive Director at the BitGive Foundation. Executives from innovative startups such as Factom, Changetip and Airbitz, will also be represented. Hosted at rhubarb studios within the U.S. bank tower building in downtown Los Angeles, The State of Digital Money will showcase technologies and host expert conversations on the […]

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French telecom carrier Orange is looking to invest in Bitcoin startups in the coming months, Bloomberg reports. Orange (formerly France Telecom), one of the largest telecom firms worldwide, is now one of the first big international phone carriers to become interested in the technology behind the digital currency. “There’s something intriguing in this technology, so we want to be there as early as possible,” said Georges Nahon, CEO of Orange Silicon Valley. “This could be a digital platform of the future.” Orange Silicon Valley has been holding Bitcoin events at its offices in San Francisco and is talking to two Bitcoin companies, Nahon said. The group can directly invest $20,000 per startup and tap into the larger funds of Orange […]

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Vitalik Buterin, one of the originals in the Bitcoin media space as the co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, and the creator of Ethereum, conducted an Ask Me Anything on Bitcoin-centric Q&A site ZapChain recently in order to answer questions by the community at large. The majority of questions asked were in relation to Ethereum, and one […]

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The Silicon Valley division of global telecommunications giant Orange is planning to invest in the bitcoin space.

XBT Social, an exclusive bitcoin community, offers novice, intermediate and experienced bitcoin traders the opportunity to develop their analytical toolset and trading practice in a collaborative analysis and trading environment. The Manifesto of xbt.social, detailed trading information, instructions on how to use the platform, recommendations, risk management and more, can be found on the start […]

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Judd Bagley, director of communications at Overstock.com, didn’t take long to become a bitcoin enthusiast after the online retailer became one of the first major U.S. companies to let customers pay with bitcoin. Speaking to Sarah Martin, vice president of Digital Currency Council, Bagley discussed his experience as a spokesman for one of the leading […]

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Coinbase is one of the world’s most popular bitcoin wallet touting an impressive 2.1 million users since its short inception in June, 2012. Their face paced growth has made it the target of proponents, critics, and now, cyber criminals. A suspicious email has recently been sent to an unknown number of Coinbase users, advertising an […]

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I’m dancing on the grave of Microsoft’s original Surface tablet, and I feel no remorse. It’s hard to feel sad—it was a beautifully crafted ten-inch tablet that ran a crippled version of Windows. It was awful. Now it’s dead, and I’ve got a way better tablet. I’m so happy.

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