– Sponsored Post – Toronto, Canada: August 21, 2014 – SecuraCoin has launched the world’s first physical retail bitcoin trade network specializing in servicing money service businesses (MSBs) and other brick and mortar stores. Providing top-level compliance training and software solutions to their agents, SecuraCoin launched on August 20th with an initial network [Read More...]
Blackcoin Pairs Added To Bittrex, And Other News
This week, I suddenly feel like a Blackcoin journalist, rather than a Bitcoin journalist. It isn’t my fault however, they just keep coming with more news. So with that in mind, I’m going to try and get everything Blackcoin out of the way in one article: Two days ago, we brought you news that Blackcoin can now be accepted and distributed at [Read More...]
Dogeparty Revitalizes Dogecoin
Most people in cryptocurrency agree that creating assets and services that work on top of existing blockchains is going to be a significant part of the cryptocurrency future. The idea of leveraging primary blockchains to creation of new assets has taken many forms so far, including Colored Coins, Mastercoin, Counterparty, and Nxt. These types of technologies promise to enable systems [Read More...]
Chain: A Developer’s Dream
Chain.com is providing the best experience for developers, and venture capitalists are taking notice. Chain just raised 9.5 million dollars in a new round of funding led by Khosla Ventures, RRE Ventures, Thrive Capital, and SV Angel. Chain may only be a few months old, but it grew out of another company that had previous funding. Before, there were two groups [Read More...]
How I, and Countless Others, Were Conned by TimeToBit
TimeToBit was an elaborate scam all along. The cryptocurrency mining industry is a strange place. Here, we live by the “guilty [Read More...]
Coinbase Case Demonstrate the Pitfalls of Regulatory Compliance
A Reddit user ostensibly representing SatoshiBet, an online casino, posted a warning to Coinbase users Wednesday that the payment processor had begun closing accounts of customers who transferred bitcoins from gambling sites. “In the last day we have had players who found their Coinbase account closed because they withdrew coins from SatoshiBet.com to their Coinbase account,” /u/satoshibet_com wrote. This should not come [Read More...]
States Can’t Stop Bitcoin
At the Texas Bitcoin Conference in 2014 Andreas Antonopolous was asked if he ever worries about a nation state using billions of dollars to destroy bitcoin. Andreas’ answer is informative, reassuring, and funny! Google+ CryptoNews Biz Read more … CryptoNewsBIZ [Read More...]
Don’t let global organisations dominate the UK’s Bitcoin market -an open letter to all UK banks
MetaLair.org’s website has been down for nearly two months, so where have we been? The answer: trying to open a bank account. Last month we needed to invoice for some work, so we approached a well-known UK bank for an account, which we will refer to as ‘Bank A’, who sent their local branch manager round to see us. He’d seen the mention of [Read More...]
Block.io: A Fool-Proof API and Wallet that Shakes Service Fees
A few developers want to make integrating blockchain transactions a walk in the park for developers of all skill levels. Tuesday, the developers announced the launch of Block.io, a foolproof API. “With Block.io, what used to take several weeks to several months to write, can now be done in a matter of hours,” founder and CEO Atif Nazir told CoinTelegraph. It [Read More...]