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The high-profile cyberattack that crippled Sony Pictures Entertainment last year has taken yet another twist with WikiLeaks putting hundreds of thousands of emails and documents from the hack into a searchable online archive Thursday.

Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul is set to appear at a bitcoin-focused event in New York City this weekend.

 On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto proposed “a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust.” Yet, it can be fairly argued that trust, or a lack thereof, has been at the heart of the troubles in the Bitcoin ecosystem since that day. While the technology has been and continues to be robust, the failure of a few individuals to meet their fiduciary or legal… Read More

The Bitcoin price moved to marginal new high today, as increasing indicator divergence and overhead resistance warn the market may soon turn back down. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the code CCN29. Bitcoin […]

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CoinDesk managing editor Emily Spaven interviews director Alex Winter ahead of the release of his new documentary film Deep Web.

A few days ago Bitcoin Magazine reported that Joi Ito, director of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, was about to unveil a plan for the institute to become what he called an independent, neutral home to help with Bitcoin standards development. “I think within a couple of weeks we’ll be announcing something which will be a little bit more substantive,” said Ito. “And I’m not pushing it, but I’m offering MIT as a neutral academic home for some of the conversations and the technical coordination.” MIT has now formally announced the launch of a Digital Currency Initiative, to be directed by former White House senior adviser for mobile and data innovation Brian Forde, who joined the […]

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A group of Czech citizens has declared a new state, the Free Republic of Liberland, in a tiny 6-square-kilometer territory along the Danube River between Croatia and the Republic of Serbia. The Liberland territory is not claimed by either of these two states, which according to the group permits it to declare a new “microstate” in compliance with international law. After the Yugoslav Wars, some borderland territories have been disputed, but this area has remained unclaimed. Liberland was created entirely in accordance with international law because it is based on the no man’s land which was claimed neither by Serbia or Croatia in the process of demarcation, InSerbia News reports. On April 13, 2015 a Preparatory Committee declared the new […]

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Bitcoin marketplace Brawker announced on Tuesday the company would be shutting down due to insufficient growth. The service was one of the first Bitcoin companies to decentralize their bitcoin buying service and integrate multi-signature bitcoin transactions. The announcement follows on the heels of Brawker’s former CEO, Cyril Houri’s, departure from the company earlier this month. The Bitcoin marketplace has been in control of the developers behind the company since. “[O]ur growth rate did not meet our expectations, and the service does not scale as we would have expected to,” read the company’s farewell blog post. Brawker is the most recent development in a string of prominent Bitcoin companies shutting down. Just last week, Buttercoin, a B2B bitcoin exchange operating in […]

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The former digital currency trading division at SecondMarket has relaunched as the newest subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, Genesis Trading.

If you’re a citizen of Finland, this weekend presents you a chance to vote in favor of the Pirate Party of Finland (Piraattipuolue) in the Finnish Parliament election, which occurs on Sunday.  The party is a member of Pirate Parties International, and has long accepted Bitcoin donations. Last month, the party received more than 10,000 […]

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 Ripple Labs, which develops a payments protocol for value-transfer over the Internet, has hired longtime Yahoo executive and former Hightail CEO Brad Garlinghouse as its chief operating officer. Garlinghouse joins as the company hits around 100 employees — a stage where startups typically bring in experienced executives to help the company continue to grow. Garlinghouse oversaw the… Read More

Ripple Labs has appointed former Yahoo and AOL executive Brad Garlinghouse as its new CEO. Garlinghouse, who sits on the board of Ancestry.com, became the CEO of file-sharing firm Hightail in 2012. He departed last fall following a dispute over a potential sale of the company, as reported at the time by Re/code. In a press statement about his new […]

Cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been wary of Max Keiser promoting anything since the MaxCoin bubble popped, but he and actor-turned-activist Russell Brand have been pushing Brand’s StartCoin hard lately. “10 Times Quicker Than Bitcoin!” StartCOIN makes bold claims. It appears to have been forked from Litecoin, and its last major commit took place nine months ago. […]

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Cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been wary of Max Keiser promoting anything since the MaxCoin bubble popped, but he and actor-turned-activist Russell Brand have been pushing Brand’s StartCoin hard lately. “10 Times Quicker Than Bitcoin!” StartCOIN makes bold claims. It appears to have been forked from Litecoin, and its last major commit took place nine months ago. […]

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Great Britain made an epic mistake about 150 years ago. When the United Kingdom, not Germany, not the United States, was the original home of the automobile’s innovation. This is not well-publicized in Western culture because of the epic failure in the story, and how swiftly the U.K. acted in its own demise. Instead of […]

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The first Bitcoin Consumer Fair comes to the Loudermilk Conference Center in Atlanta, Ga. on April 17 and 18. The educational and trade event addresses consumers and merchants who are interested in expanding the use of bitcoin in the Atlanta area, as well as those interested in working on the business and technology side of […]

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