By Mark Norton: Editor @ BitcoinWarrior.net 08/21/2014 One of the things we at Bitcoin Warrior love to do is to find businesses, on and off line, that take Bitcoin and talk with them about their experience. Of course, our basic reason to do this is that we just love talking about Bitcoin with people, experienced and new users [Read More...]
Overstock Will Soon Ship Bitcoin Orders Globally
In yet another move to expand the company’s Bitcoin presence, Overstock will soon accept Bitcoin payment worldwide. The shipping options are available for 101 different countries, including North America, several South American nations, most of Europe, large parts of Asia the Middle East, and Egypt, Réunion, and South Africa on the African continent. Overstock was already the largest retailer to begin [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...]
Bitcoin Foundation Releases a Primer on Jurisdictions for BTC Businesses
As mentioned in a recent piece regarding Coinbase having to police its users’ gambling activity, having to deal with the various regulations of multiple jurisdictions is a minefield, particularly for Bitcoin businesses, whose models are theoretically border-agnostic. Still, if a Bitcoin payments processor wants to attract customers in the US, it has to abide by relevant US laws, as court cases [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...]
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...]