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 For the first few years, there was no response from Wall Street. The Wall Street Journal didn’t mention bitcoin until a blog post in June 2011. As the bitcoin community waited, advocates and enthusiasts speculated as to why America’s financial strongholds weren’t talking about the digital currency. Did banks not take bitcoin seriously enough to acknowledge it or feel… Read More

More than 20 startups including 21 Inc, BitPay and ChangeTip vied for job seeker attention at the second annual Bitcoin Job Fair this weekend.

Today, Infinity Algorithms and Factom are proud to announce a new partnership. Infinity Algorithms will integrate Factom’s time stamped immutable ledger into the SAFE network providing an additional layer of security for users. This will build trust by providing complete transparency and real time audibility of SAFEX network systems of record, while at the same time maintaining user privacy. Factom will also be explore ways to utilize the SAFE network within the Factom protocol. Infinity Algorithms and the SAFEX Protocol Infinity Algorithms uses Factom for time-stamping and verification in its SAFEX protocol “We are proud to announce a partnership in which the SAFEX protocol will enable Factom’s time stamped immutable ledger into the SAFE Network.” Said Daniel Dabek, Co-Founder and […]

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Brad Garlinghouse, the former CEO of Hightail and a long-time executive of Yahoo! has been appointed as Ripple’s first Chief Operating Officer, as the company passes the 100-employee mark. “Brad’s experience will be invaluable as we advance our focus from building a strong pipeline to execution and exceptional growth,” said Ripple Labs CEO and co-founder Chris Larsen in a statement. “We share a vision for the future of finance and the creation of an Internet of Value in which value exchange is as fast, free, transparent and secure as information exchange is on the Internet today.” Prior to Hightail (formerly known as YouSendIt), Garlinghouse worked for AOL Inc. as the former president of applications and commerce and for Yahoo! as an […]

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Brad Garlinghouse, the former CEO of Hightail and a long-time executive of Yahoo! has been appointed as Ripple’s first Chief Operating Officer, as the company passes the 100-employee mark. “Brad’s experience will be invaluable as we advance our focus from building a strong pipeline to execution and exceptional growth,” said Ripple Labs CEO and co-founder Chris Larsen in a statement. “We share a vision for the future of finance and the creation of an Internet of Value in which value exchange is as fast, free, transparent and secure as information exchange is on the Internet today.” Prior to Hightail (formerly known as YouSendIt), Garlinghouse worked for AOL Inc. as the former president of applications and commerce and for Yahoo! as an […]

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Digital currency startup NeuCoin’s 60-day crowd pre-sale aims to raise the additional funds needed to prepare for the company’s public launch this summer. One hundred million NeuCoin will be up for sale April 28 in exchange for bitcoin. The price will start at 25,000 NeuCoin for 1 Bitcoin (approx. $0.01 per NeuCoin) and increase by 1 percent each day. The pre-sale will end after 60 days or after all coins have been sold. The Paris-based NeuCoin startup has already raised $2.25 million from a group of investors. Co-founder Dan Kaufman is confident about the launch of NeuCoin and told Bitcoin Magazine: “We’ve been getting thousands of emails and feel there’s a lot of interest and anticipation for the pre-sale. People seem to appreciate our solid angel investors […]

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Chile-based Bitcoin company, SurBTC, which translates to Bitcoin South, recently launched the South American country’s first Bitcoin exchange. The exchange hopes to be a safe and reliable way for Chileans to access and invest in bitcoin. Chile is right next door to Argentina, a country well known in the Bitcoin industry. Argentina’s high inflation and strict capital controls have created conditions many believe will ignite Bitcoin adoption in the country. But unbeknownst to most, Chileans have had a growing interest in digital currency as well. The country has been home to a small-but-growing Bitcoin community. There are more than 200 registered members in the Santiago, Chile Bitcoin Meetup, as well as numerous businesses that accept the digital currency. But Chileans […]

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FinCCX, a Finland-based cryptocurrency exchange that allows users to exchange regular money for bitcoins, has begun accepting euros. The exchange is no longer accepting U.S. dollars but hopes to resume doing so in the near future. Euro acceptance makes FinCCX one of the few exchanges that allows users to exchange bitcoins for euros, Elena Umanets, […]

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BitSIM is a thin, flexible card that can be stuck on any existing SIM card as an add-on hardware layer. BitSIM converts the SIM card into a fully encrypted bitcoin wallet compatible with a wide range of cell phones, including cheap and unsophisticated feature phones. “BitSIM puts bitcoins on any SIM, on any mobile phone, for mass adoption and frictionless ecosystem uptake,” claims the BitSIM website. Users will be able to pay locally with NFC-enabled phones, but also send and receive bitcoin with a simple SMS to other users anywhere in the world. The BitSIM website notes that this simple application can disrupt the $1 trillion remittance market, which is poorly served by companies such as Western Union. BitSIM seems […]

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Bitcoin price action has not made any significant change since the last analysis update. A review of the largest significant timeframe used for analysis reveals that a battle is raging at current levels in the charts. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? […]

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 If that headline doesn’t make much sense welcome to the 21st century when a program designed to buy random items from illegal marketplaces automatically can be arrested by Swiss police. As you’ll recall, Swiss police seized a program called Darknet Shopper, a bot that visited darknet markets and bought random items with bitcoin. Most of the items were mundane – counterfeit… Read More

This May, the city of Istanbul will play host to the International Money Transfer Conference or IMTC EMEA 2015. The conference will be held at the Conrad Istanbul Bosphorus Hotel on May 25-27th 2015, and will bring together all the players dealing in money transfer globally. In recent years, businesses involved in money transfer have […]

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Allow me to introduce you to someone who has the potential to be very important in the future of Bitcoin. His name is Balaji Srinivasan, and he is the chairman and co-founder of 21 Inc. What is 21 Inc? 21 Inc. is the Bitcoin startup that secured the most venture capital of any Bitcoin company […]

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The role U.S. government agents played in bitcoin thefts at Mt. Gox in 2013 has generated a lot of media coverage recently. But one security firm investigating the Mt. Gox thefts, Tokyo-based WizSec, believes the agents did not play a significant role in the missing bitcoins. The Mt. Gox exchange collapsed in early 2014 and […]

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