September 15, 2015

Bitcoin Business

Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 16/9/2015 – Bears Reassert Their Dominance

Bitcoin Price Down. Bearish Overarching Momentum. Newsbtc Bitcoin Analysis. Bitcoin has had a very quiet start to this week after the bulls failed to protect their support level of $235 during the last Sunday. The cryptocurrency recently took support from the mentioned technical level and…

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Litecoin Price Technical Analysis for 16/9/2015 – Keep A Close Watch

LITECOIN Price EXTREMELY TIGHT Yes, that is the advice I have for market participants involved in Litecoin trading. Litecoin is currently at a juncture where if it begins its upward climb, it can give high returns; but if it falls, then there is a roughly…

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Blockchain expert Tim Swanson talks about R3 partnership of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays et al

The world's biggest banks are agreeing on the way forward with distributed ledger technology. Reuters Nine of the world's biggest banks from both sides of the Atlantic and Asia Pacific have agreed to join a partnership to divine a set of common standards and practices…

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Decentralized Prediction Market Augur Raises More Than Oculus Rift in 3 Days of Crowdfunding Campaign

Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150915/266901LOGO Prediction markets make use of the concept called the Wisdom of Crowds to arrive at market driven forecasts which feature a high degree of success. Using Augur, participants buy and sell shares in the outcomes of everything from elections to the destruction…

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Russia’s New Law Threatens Internet Privacy as LocalBitcoins Volume Spikes

Recently the Russian State Duma adopted amendments to the law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Security" that will enable Moscow to tighten its grip on the Internet. The Russian authorities claim that the Internet threatens state sovereignty since it is border-agnostic and, thus, attackers…

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Bitcoin 101: What is a ‘Fork’ and How Does it Work?

The Bitcoin story of the summer has been about the future direction of Bitcoin in relation to block size and a potential Bitcoin fork. There has been much discussion on BIP 100, or Bitcoin XT or BIP 101, and a lot of ideas about what…

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Russian Artist Makes Music Using Bitcoin Market Data

Is this the sound a bitcoin market makes?Russian artist Dmitry Morozov, also known as ::vtol::, recently debuted a new art technology installation entitled silk that uses live data from bitcoin and litecoin markets across five different currencies to create music.The work was shown this past…

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Why The Cloud Is Eating The Payments Industry

Not much more than 100 years ago, the ice industry was a major component of the U.S. industrial economy, contributing $660 million (in today’s dollars) to the GDP and employing 90,000 people, more than the total population of good-sized cities like Albany, Atlanta and Nashville.…

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Identity Protocol Provider Onename to Utilize Bitcoin

Onename, an open-source protocol provider which creates secure and trustless identities on the blockchain network has announced that the platform will switch from namecoin’s blockchain to bitcoin at the Blockstack Summit 2015.The company’s co-founder Muneeb Ali explained, “Namecoin is not secure,” because of one mining…

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Former Mt. Gox CEO Karpeles Charged for the embezzlement of US$2.62 Million Worth of Bitcoin

Previously, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office indicted Mark Karpeles with embezzlement. This week, The Guardian disclosed that the former Mt. Gox CEO has been alleged by the Japanese Prosecutors for the embezzlement of US$2.62 million worth of bitcoin.Karpeles however, denied the charges and claimed…

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Mike Tyson Partners with Bitcoin Direct LLC

The Bitcoin industry received its first celebrity partnership following an agreement between Conexus Corporation’s subsidiary Bitcoin Direct LLC and boxing legend Mike Tyson. The Mike Tyson Bitcoin ATMs will provide consumers with the ability to instantaneously purchase bitcoin via their mobile devices. “Mike Tyson’s fastest…

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Bitcoin Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal ‘Ledger’ Launches

Ledger, the first ever peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to cryptocurrencies such as a bitcoin, launched today.Arising from a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh, MIT Media Lab and partly funded by Coin Center, Ledger Journal will attempt to lead the research being done in the…

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Nine of world’s biggest banks join to form blockchain partnership

Nine of the world's biggest banks including Goldman Sachs and Barclays have joined forces with New York-based financial tech firm R3 to create a framework for using blockchain technology in the markets, the firm said on Tuesday.It is the first time banks have come together…

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BNP Paribas Fortis Denies Bitcoin Vault Project

BNP Paribas Fortis BNP Paribas Fortis has denied it is exploring the idea of entering the bitcoin space as a digital vault provider.A spokesperson for the international Belgium-based bank – a subsidiary of BNP Paribas – told CoinDesk the company was not planning to allow…

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MecklerMedia’s Virtual Reality Summit Launches to Explore Innovation Trends in Virtual Reality; October 21, 2015 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California

NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- MecklerMedia Corporation (OTCQX: MECK) will debut its latest conference, the Virtual Reality Summit on October 21, 2015, to lead a discussion on the future of Virtual Reality. The event will take place at the Inside 3D Printing Conference…

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