CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Bitcoin penetrated American academia for the first time in 2014, as top-ranked US universities New York University and Duke University offered their inaugural cryptocurrency courses that year. Since then, Bitcoin courses at US colleges and universities is a new trend. NYU and Duke were each ranked in the top 10 in relevant categories in the US News and World Report. NYU’s first course was called The Law and Business of Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies. The Duke course was called Innovation, Disruption and Cryptoventures, with a research emphasis on potential businesses that use the block chain. Princeton offers a course, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency […] The post More US Colleges & Universities Offering Bitcoin Courses In The Fall appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. |
Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Bitcoin wallet manufacturer Case Inc. has concluded the final phase of testing and announced that the company will begin shipping its hardware wallets on September 21. “Appropriation of parts is complete and the manufacturing process is nearing its end. Everyone at Case is eager to get our device in the hands of our customers who have patiently waited for their bitcoin wallets,” Case announced on its website. “Providing a secure, easy-to-use bitcoin experience around the world has been our mission from the beginning and we’re excited to finally deliver on that.” The Case team launched its hardware wallets at TechCrunch NY on June 24 and raised $1.5 million in an equity seed funding round led by FuturePerfect Ventures, participated in […] The post Case Announces September 21 Shipping Date for Bitcoin Hardware Wallets appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine. |
Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST This week, Vogogo announced in its second-quarter financial statements that leading Bitcoin companies, including BitPay, ChangeTip, Genesis Global Trading and Zinger, have integrated Vogogo’s risk management/compliance products onto their platforms. Vogogo’s services include customer verification, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance compliance reporting, payment and rules engine and fraud mitigation. Global bitcoin payment services provider BitPay has integrated Vogogo’s AML-CTF global compliance, which validates users against global watch lists and protects the platform from money laundering attempts with advanced analytics and decision-making technology. “We are seeing significant interest in our risk-management services and payment services from alternative markets,” said Vogogo CEO Geoff Gordon. “Capturing those opportunities will help us drive revenue while we continue to move forward with our plan to […] The post Leading Bitcoin Startups Integrate Vogogo’s Risk Management Platform appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine. |
Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST A Princeton University free online course on “Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies” will be offered by Coursera beginning September 4, 2015. Coursera is an online education platform for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take for free. MOOCs give anyone, anywhere, the possibility to acquire a world-class education. Courses include video lectures, exercises and online interaction with teachers and other students. Some courses offer certification as well. The Princeton Bitcoin course will last six weeks, with the last lecture on November 1, 2015, but students also will be able to follow the video lectures after that date. That’s part of the appeal of MOOCs –students who prefer […] The post Princeton University and Coursera Launch Free Online Course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST BTCChina has backed Jeff Garzik's block size scaling solution, giving BIP 100 a majority of the network's hashing power. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST BitFury – the best-capitalised mining firm in bitcoin – has waded into the block size debate, stating it must be resolved by consensus. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Well-known Bitcoin investor Michael Terpin believes Bitcoin is now at the point in its evolution where Bitcoin firms can reach out directly to the consumer, citing Purse.io as an example of success in this pursuit. “I think now we are the moment in Bitcoin where enough of the infrastructure has been built up we can serve the consumer,” Terpin said. “In January 2014, I said at a conference that you could not have the Google of Bitcoin until you have the Yahoo, and you can’t have the Netscape until you have the Cisco. Cisco is the mining equipment and brick-and-mortar […] The post Investor Michael Terpin On Bitcon Consumer Adoption: "The Consumer Market Is Responding" appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Commonwealth governments should regulate bitcoin, according to the Commonwealth's Virtual Currencies Working Group. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST If you pay any attention to the financial blogosphere you might have noticed talk of an impending economic collapse coming to the US and world this Fall. The Economic Collapse Blog issued a “Red Alert” for the last six months of 2015, for instance. In early 2015, The Economic Collapse Blog's Michael Snyder wrote a piece entitled, “The Shemitah: The Biblical Pattern Which Indicates That A Financial Collapse May Be Coming In 2015.” He, like many of the internet analysts predicting an economic collapse around the end of 2015, cite something called the Shemitah Calendar as a reason for their […] The post Financial Bloggers Have Been Predicting the Economy is About to Crash Thanks to a Biblical Calendar appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. |