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Crypto 2.0 Roundup: Ethereum’s Counterparty Fork and a Vote for Colored Coins

Moving into the holiday season, the crypto 2.0 segment of the bitcoin industry continues to garner increasing attention for its efforts to expand the potential use cases for blockchain technology.However, after months of heightened activity and exciting launches that saw the community come into sharper…

cineramaNovember 23, 2014

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The Blockchain and the Rise of Networked Trust

“We are free to plant our own seeds; we don’t buy the brand nor the patent from a multinational. In order to plant, we don’t need permission. Also, we don’t ask anyone’s permission for what to do with our money!”Santiago Zaz is an organic farmer…

cineramaNovember 23, 2014

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Could Bitcoin Tipping Replace Traditional Online Advertising?

Online advertising has exploded into a $40bn industry, and unfortunately for many Internet users, this increase has come with the cost of often-annoying user experiences.To be fair, online advertising has been a boon for the Internet and for content creators. The idea of a digital canvas for…

cineramaNovember 23, 2014

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Gavin Andresen: Bitcoin Foundation Pivot Won’t Centralize Core Development

Gavin Andresen Web Summit Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist Gavin Andresen has publicly voiced his support for the organisation's plan to focus solely on core development.In a new blog post , Andresen defended prior efforts to support core development and stated that the Bitcoin Foundation is just…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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UK Shadow Minister Outlines Bitcoin’s Potential for Disruption

Nov-20-Transferwise-Chi-Onwura 3 Bitcoin has the potential to reduce consumers' reliance on giant banks and other entrenched financial institutions, according to Chi Onwurah, the UK's shadow cabinet minister for digital government.Onwurah is leading a sweeping review of how technology is used by UK public services for…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Why banks fear Bitcoin

The virtual currency is likely to decentralize banking services, says Trond Arne Undheim, senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Bitcoin heralds a new age more disruptive than that of today’s Internet. Disruption can be a good thing, especially when it affects banking, a…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Finland at Odds with EU on VAT Exempts Status of Bitcoin Services

The nation of Finland has ruled that Bitcoin services will be exempt of Value Added Tax. While many in the Bitcoin community dread the thought of regulation and taxes, the fact is that if Bitcoin is ever going to become mainstream, both might become a necessary…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Internet Gambling Ban: Bitcoin Boom or Bane?

It would be difficult to find a nonpolitician to agree that the United States has anything close to a functional Congress. The conservative wave that seems to be sweeping the United States political world actually does little to defend an entity that does not contribute…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Bitcoin Exchange Igot ‘Taking Remittance to the Next Level,’ Expanding to Egypt and Saudi Arabia

Australia headquartered Bitcoin exchange Igot, experiencing rapid growth, planning to launch in Saudi Arabia and Egypt in December.Even though the Adelaide-based Bitcoin exchange has been rapidly growing in numbers, with 60% monthly growth in users, and 400% growth in trading, Igot is not going to…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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You’ve Been Lied to About Net ‘Neutrality’ (Op-Ed)

There are three problems that surround this debate, and each problem comes from a different group:1 – First is a problem for us, the consumers. Near-monopolies like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T did not become near monopolies by accident. During the early days of the Internet,…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Now You Can Buy Movie Tickets for Bitcoin with FlixForCoins

Going only by the name Richard, a computer science student attending Mount Royal University in Canada has launched FlixForCoins .The site purchases movie tickets for fiat on your behalf. The site isn’t just for making payments, either—it actually hosts complete show time schedules of major…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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SpectroCoin Targets Underbanked in Its New Bitcoin-to-Cash Service

SpectroCoin Targets Underbanked in Its New Bitcoin-to-Cash Service ForexMinute.com – SpectroCoin launched a new Bitcoin-to-Cash remittance service in 25 countries across Central Asia and Europe. The UK and Lithuania-based Bitcoin Company proclaimed its service to be focusing specially on the underbanked section in its business…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Blocksign: Signing Documents on the Blockchain

Blocksign: Signing Documents on the Blockchain The Blockchain creates and records all digital currency transactions using mathematics.The Bitcoin blockchain uses the computing power on Earth to solve these math problems that confirm transactions made using the digital currency Bitcoin.As many are familiar with the cryptocurrency…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Regulation Takes Center Stage at Bloomberg Bitcoin Event

The importance of regulation was the topic of the day as industry heavyweights joined current and former regulators at Bloomberg's bitcoin conference yesterday. Bitcoin: Beyond the Currency , held at the organization's global headquarters in New York, drew an audience of roughly 200, many of…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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ChangeTip Releases New Metrics Amid Surge in Bitcoin Tipping Interest

Bitcoin tipping service ChangeTip has reported increasing user activity, claiming that it has signed up 34,000 users since it was founded last December.The company told CoinDesk that it completed 10,000 transactions in one day last week. This represented one-sixth of its total transaction volume, ChangeTip 's…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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New Research Links Bitcoin Price Spikes to Media Hype

Chalkboard, price A new research paper aims to understand bitcoin’s price fluctuations and usage patterns through empirical analysis. Notably, the work finds a positive link between media attention and the value of the cryptocurrency.“The rise of bitcoin has generated interest from the media and scientific community. However our…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Mining Roundup: Bitmain’s Mining Pool Push and a HashFast Auction

What’s happening in the world of cryptocurrency mining?Recent reports indicate that despite the shift among some to the cloud, hardware development remains a priority among the major players in the space.At the other end of the spectrum, the industry continues to face headwinds on the…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Huobi’s BitVC Takes Trader Profit to Cover $1 Million Loss

UPDATE (November 20th 16:01 GMT): Alongsideits plan to pool 20% of all trading fees into a 'system reserve fund', Huobi informed CoinDesk it has now reimbursed all users who suffered from its "system loss allocation policy" in the form of credit for future trading fees."BitVC will continue working toward…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Cryptoart Boosts Collectors with Bitcoin Black Friday Event

Cryptoart combines fine art and Bitcoin for the modern art collector; launches holiday shopping event November 17, 2014/Houston, TX — Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday have a new contender for retailers’ economic cheer: Bitcoin Black Friday. As Bitcoin users grow exponentially, smarter…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Announcing Solar – A Step Change In Processing Capability

The 16nm FinFET Solar chip will hit markets in early 2015. We were the first in the world to deliver 28nm and 20nm Bitcoin chip technology and we’re still the only producer capable of delivering 20nm tech in the Bitcoin space. We’ve been aiming for…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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ZeusHash Bitcoin And Litecoin Cloud Mining Platform Announces Gridseed Partnership And Generous Thanksgiving Promotion

Alliance Zeus Bitcoin Press Release: Hong Kong based Bitcoin and Litecoin cloud mining provider ZeusHash has announced an exciting new partnership with Gridseed and is offering reduced cloud mining prices and giveaways to celebrate Thanksgiving. After intensive top-level talks ZeusHash is excited to announce a…

cineramaNovember 20, 2014

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Term Sheet — Monday, November 17

E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share iconsBack during the great Ebola Panic of October 2014, I read the following tweet from Silicon Valley academic Vivek Wadhwa: "Imagine if SV focused on detecting Ebola and developing cures for infectious diseases. Big data, Syn bio, sensors,…

cineramaNovember 17, 2014

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Brawker, the BTC Store for Everything, Implements Multisig

Brawker , the site that connects Bitcoiners who want to purchase things currently only available for fiat with willing buyers, has just implemented multisignature escrow as a default for all transactions.The process works like this: if you want something that’s not available for Bitcoin, you…

cineramaNovember 17, 2014

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The Path To Greatness

Bitcoin, as a distributed and open source type of money, is destined for greatness. Like any young prodigy, its abilities can be foreseen and its potential visualized by those with a certain clairvoyance in these matters. Bitcoin is a tiger pup, stretching its limbs and…

cineramaNovember 17, 2014

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Onename, a Y Combinator-Backed Company Gets $1.5 million in seed funding

Onename, a Y Combinator-Backed Company Gets $1.5 million in seed funding Founded by Ryan Shea and Muneeb Ali, and backed by Y Combinator, Onename gets $1.5 million in seed funding. The company says that with the funds it wants to make Bitcoin transactions easier by…

cineramaNovember 16, 2014

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