The Winklevosses have started a daily bitcoin auction for night owls, a profiteer-cum-criminal of bitcoin denies the digital currency is money after all and Purse and Unocoin are hitching a ride on Amazon’s Indian locomotive. Meanwhile, Bitfinex is still a thorn in the side of...
While various criminals have tried it, the “bitcoin isn’t money, therefore I can not be guilty of a financial crime” defense never really works out. While the federal government has declared that bitcoin is not legal tender or currency in the same sense that the...
A mixed bag for bitcoin this week. A taxi company in Rome is accepting the currency, the U.S. government is hedging its bets and investors are showing support. The Bitfinex hack was a learning opportunity, but the miners are unhappy and might be plotting an...
Bitcoin news this week will appeal to the more sensitive type, with news of young love and commitment. Investors in the digital currency are buying bitcoin in physical form for the long term, and a town in Switzerland is a honeymoon spot for bitcoin venture...
This week sees a social media platform for non-bitcoin users in creation, but the platform wants to stimulate bitcoin use, strangely enough. A complicated app closure and acquisition concludes with a newly launched Keza app, and we forecast potential bitcoin price influencers for the fall.
Bitcoin is going a bit more mainstream and may be part of your daily morning jolt. As NewsBTC reported, eGifter, the online gift card platform, is supporting Dunkin’ Donuts cards, and as part of that support, customers can pay with bitcoin. Thus, distributed ledger technology is...
For some time now, some people have thought the Bitcoin Core development team is too conservative and too concerned with technical failures to take action to improve the ability of the network to grow, but after the collapse of the DAO, two Ethereum blockchains are...
It has been a slow week for bitcoin news, and bitcoin price movements have been undramatic. Amid the hype in China, Forex Paradise has launched bitcoin debit cards. US Marshals auctioned off Silk Road-tinged bitcoin. And Voldemort has woken with a bitcoin scheme, and it’s...
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) said there needs to be clarity over blockchain regulations before adoption can become more widespread. Reuters reported Thursday that the consortium polled its members, among them large banks, and the lure of the technology remains intact, as it would...
