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Silk Road The Silk Road saga lives on, and this time, the code has been forked. The newest Silk Road player, called Silk Road Reloaded (SRR), is distinctly different in at least two ways from previous Silk Road iterations. First, the SRR is not run…
Getting those tax records together for the 2015 filing season? Don’t forget about Bitcoin. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued guidance to taxpayers in 2014 on how to treat Bitcoin – and other virtual currency – for federal income tax purposes. That guidance, IRS Notice…
The bitcoin blockchain can be utilized to store transaction records in its public ledger database, but that is far from its only use case. Novel real-world applications in the fields of smart contracts and intellectual property rights , have begun to surface, providing a glimpse of the…
They gave us a fully decentralized Internet and we used it to build web services–Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, iCloud–so massively centralized they verge on being quasi-medieval fiefdoms. Now we’re building the Internet of Someone Else’s Things , wherein every room of every home will contain devices…
People Are Talking About … This week in hilarious bloviating: Activist investment firm Starboard Value warned Yahoo in a letter that it doesn’t like rumors that Marissa Mayer might want to buy Scripps Networks or Time Warner’s CNN . I don’t like those rumors much…
For Purse.io has announced plans to offer a $10,000 guarantee plan to protect users from any costs related to purchasing items through its website. The program, launched on 7th January, will also be available retrospectively to users who report incidents on any past transactions. Andrew…
Cubits has launched a web app designed to speed up and simplify bitcoin transactions. Notably, the London-based cryptocurrency startup allows customers to buy bitcoin in minutes, making it one of the fastest digital currency platforms in Europe, according to the company. "We want to speed up…
Litecoin, Dogecoin, Blackcoin and Neoscoin requested to be delisted from Coin-Swap. The move follows the recent announcement of Josh Garza’s Paybase’s acquisition of the cryptocurrency exchange. On January 2, the four altcoins respectively dropped off the cryptocurrency exchange and requested Coin-Swap remove Litecoin, Dogecoin, Blackcoin…
A lot can happen in 365 days. A year ago, 1 BTC was worth $770, governments around the world were either terrified of bitcoin or laughed it off as a passing fad and it was a lot harder to find a place to spend your bitcoins….
The proliferation of BTMs around the world continued last week, even with the Christmas holiday giving billions of us an excuse not to do much work at all. According to the Bitcoin ATM map published by our partner Coin ATM Radar, 5 new BTMs went…
With the arrival of the holiday season, many of us have been humming our favorite carols as we complete our shopping and familial preparations. The song “Silver and Gold” prominently comes to mind, although lately it feels as if the title should be changed to…
Last week I spoke with Mr. Knuckle , the developer of the decentralized market “NXT FreeMarket.” Now I’m pleased to interview Angel Leon and Brian Hoffman, developers of “OpenBazaar,” another disruptive decentralized market. Ferdinand Reyes: First of all, can you explain to me which are…
It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and here in the United States that means it’s Black Friday — the biggest shopping day of the year. And while the vast majority of users will be paying for their items in cash and credit cards, the folks using bitcoin…
Want to enjoy lavish Black Friday discounts with Bitcoin without the lines, camping out for several days, and the risk of violence? Maybe Bitcoin Black Friday is the extravaganza for you. Last year was huge . In fact, it was the “most popular day in…
Amazon.com website Purse.io, a San Francisco-based startup that allows people to buy items on Amazon using bitcoin, says it has closed a $300,000 seed funding round involving prominent members of the bitcoin community. The firm has also announced new data on the discounts provided by its platform…
What we do at Purse is enable our customers to use Bitcoin on the world’s largest online merchant, Amazon. You can spend your BTC for any item on Amazon and receive 20% off. You can also use Purse to purchase BTC with a Credit Card…
More than 1,000 merchants are offering discounts for customers who pay in bitcoin. BitcoinBlackFriday.com Bitcoin rates declined on 28 November as supporters of the digital currency are conducting a large-scale promotional campaign by selling products and services at big discounts for payers in bitcoin on…
Amazon is jumping the gun this year by already starting their “Black Friday” sales five days early. Although Amazon does not accept bitcoin, using bitcoin for these purchases can drop an additional 10 to 25% off of some of the best prices on the Internet….
Red Cross The American Red Cross has announced that it will now accept bitcoin through a partnership with BitPay. Founded in 1881, the American Red Cross is the official US affiliate of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement . The humanitarian organisation provides…
Bitcoin Black Friday “Black Friday” is one of the busiest shopping days in the United States. It is a day of unbridled consumerism on steroids, when people pitch tents and lay sleeping bags in front of retail stores and malls across the country, getting ready…
The Digital Currency Council’s recently released study on UK citizens reveals that Bitcoin’s biggest challenges are around adoption and communications, and that digital currencies have got a persistent reputation problem. It is in light of the call for information made by the government of the…
Canada-based DailyDealy is kind of like Groupon, but the deals aren’t city-specific and don’t require a threshold of buyers for the “deal” to go through. As of November 1, 2014 they have been accepting Bitcoin for all the products they offer: electronics, housewares, gadgetry, apparel…
Hong Kong-based Bitspark has just announced the world’s first end-to-end cash remittance service that’s transferred via Bitcoin using ReBit . The service caters to Hong Kong’s large population of Filipinos who regularly use services like Western Union and Money Gram to send funds back to…
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…
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…
Facebook1 Twitter1 G+Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote submit inShare G. Heni is Chief Communication Officer at the newly launched French Bitcoin exchange Bitcoin-Wave . In an interview with CoinTelegraph, the executive shares his company incentives and motivations, and discusses its future plans, as building the largest…
UK cryptocurrency exchange Yacuna has launched a website that aims to remove the hassle of trading for newcomers who want to buy cryptocurrencies quickly and easily. Selling bitcoin, dogecoin and litecoin, YacunaDirect is a user-friendly platform designed to appeal to a broad international audience, including traditional traders and finance professionals, who…
Yellow Twitter pills delivered to the Random Darknet Shopper installation. Source: !Mediagruppe Bitnik Last week, a padded envelope was delivered to the Kunst Halle St Gallen, a sophisticated contemporary art gallery in the city known as the gateway to the Swiss Alps. The envelope contained a DVD…
Internet shopping US-based online and mobile gifting company eGifter has announced its expansion into the European market. Notably, the move coincides with a similar announcement last week by UK-based Pockio and sees both companies offering their services in the UK, France and Germany. Both companies have also aired plans to enter other markets…
Will Bitcoin Rise to Prominence with Truecoin? Yesoption Review BitPay announced that it will soon be launching Truecoin ATMs at NCAA college football games. Bitpay representatives stated that this should enable Bitcoin to become a mass-market currency, as many merchants now are accepting Bitcoins. Fans…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 279.2 Ph/s Facebook Twitter35 G+2Pinterest1 reddit Upvote Downvote 1 point inShare 3The Bitcoin community usually revels in the news when large companies like Overstock.com and Expedia announce that they are accepting Bitcoin. But while these companies definitely have large customer bases, Bitcoin…
Following are the major Bitcoin and cryptocurrency news of the day NCR Silver Announces to Integrate Bitcoin Payment giant NCR Silver announced its plans to offer small business the opportunity to accept Bitcoin payments via BitPay. The services will be launched hopefully by the end…
BitcoinDiscounts Logo Bitcoin Press Release: New shopping platform BitcoinDiscounts.net lists the hottest discounts from merchants accepting Bitcoin preparing both sellers and consumers for the biggest shopping day of the year: Black Friday the 28th of November. Online Bitcoin market hub and sales listing site…
Global payments conglomerate NCR has announced that one of its merchant point-of-sale (POS) systems will soon offer bitcoin support. The integration of bitcoin into the NCR Silver POS is expected to happen sometime before the end of this year . The system will also support…
Coinverse has launched a new bitcoin banking platform that aims to bring consumer and merchant bitcoin transactions and bitcoin bill payment to the broader Latin American market. The Brazil-based startup sees an unmet demand for user-friendly bitcoin solutions, asserting that its domestic competitors are better catered to…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 281.7 Ph/s Bitcoiners are notoriously picky shoppers. I’ve met with merchants who complain no one uses Bitcoin to purchase items on their website, even though the digital store of value is openly accepted in their shop. This year, Black Friday falls on…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 285.5 Ph/s Facebook2 Twitter17 G+3Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote 1 point inShare 4As we reported back in early October, Bitstash is a unique Bitcoin innovation. Bitstash aims to deliver wallet solutions with two major selling points – one being flawless security, and the…
Shopify Merchants Can Now Accept Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Litecoin with GoCoin One of the big news items in the realm of e-commerce over the past year has been Shopify ‘s movement into the bitcoin space by allowing their 120,000+ merchants to accept bitcoin. It call started last…
Shopify’s 120K Merchants Can Now Accept Payments in Litecoin and Dogecoin In a release sent out on Wednesday, cryptocurrency payments processor GoCoin announced it had partnered with ecommerce platform Shopify , whose 120 thousand-plus merchants will now be able to sell to customers in Bitcoin,…
SANTA MONICA, CA – GoCoin LLC, the first e-commerce payment solution for processing bitcoin and emerging digital currencies, today announced a partnership with Shopify to provide the company’s 120,000+ retailers the option to accept cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin at checkout. Shopify is the…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 230.2 Ph/s Discount rates are the bane of merchants around the world. Simply put they are the percentage paid by merchants for each transaction that involves credit or debit cards. These fees can range from about 1% to as high as 5%…
KnCMiner Stops Sales of Equipment, Mining For Themselves Instead Sweden-based KnCMiner is quite frankly tired of dealing with customers, evidently. And it’s one thing to curse at your unhappy customer while they are on hold. KnCMiner is saying goodbye to all of their customers because…
Bitcoin Panel at World Knowledge Forum, Seoul 2014 Bitcoin made a prominent mainstream appearance in South Korea last week at a special session of the 15th annual World Knowledge Forum in Seoul. The largest business forum in Asia, WKF is a prestigious three-day event designed…
Pioneering bitcoin ATM maker Robocoin has come under fire after an angry customer took to Reddit to publicise its grievances about how it was treated by the firm. The customer, a company called MetaLab Design in Victoria, Canada, claimed the ATM it ordered from Robocoin…
By Angela Dunn, Senior Director, Global Corporate Affairs, SAP Think about it. A 17-year-old girl wins the Nobel Peace prize becoming the youngest person ever to receive the prestigious award. The cover of TIME magazine features a teenage activist in the democracy movement in Hong…
New Bitcoin Merchants: Beer Gardens, Dash Cams and More THON Org A-7 is a Penn State student philanthropy organization with more than 15,000 volunteers. The group is focused on curing cancer in children and is now accepting Bitcoin for donations as well as fiat currencies…
Showroomprive is a Paris-based online shopping website for clothes, cosmetics and household items that offers discounts of 30–70% off of leading brand-name products. Its more than $500m in annual revenue make it one of the leading e-commerce companies in Europe, with 2013 figures placing it…
South African payments provider Wallettec has partnered with BitPay to integrate bitcoin with its point-of-sale (POS) payment platform. The company worked with South African BitPay affiliate Bitcoin Payments to allow merchants using its platform to accept bitcoin payments via in-store POS devices. The new partnership is…
