Archive for December, 2014

We at CoinTelegraph would like to invite you, our readers, to participate with us in choosing the winners of our 2014 Bitcoin Industry Awards. Our staff would like to recognize the year’s greatest achievers across the cryptocurrency industry. Which people, places, and businesses would you most like to crown with recognition for their high achievements? […]

NEW YORK (InsideBitcoins) – By May of 2014, even though China had backed down from its ban on bitcoin, there were still continued problems in the country. BTC China stopped deposits from the Bank of China. The Global Bitcoin Summit was missing the CEOs of the five major Chinese bitcoin exchanges. And there was continued […]

New Delhi Television Limited, one of India’s largest TV networks, aired a show featuring an interview with the Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Raghuram Rajan. The show, which was titled ‘India Forecast,’ gathered students from several local universities to ask the head of India’s central bank various questions about the economy. This post […]

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust on Wednesday filed to sell 20.1 million shares on the Nasdaq exchange. The shares represent units of interest in the bitcoin exchange-traded fund launched by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the twins who are best known for their legal dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook’s FB, 0.09% origins. […]

It’s been a bumper 12 months for bitcoin companies raising funding. In fact, the amount of venture capital flowing into bitcoin startups this year is more than three times the total raised in 2013, according to CoinDesk data. In total, bitcoin firms raised $314.7m in 2014. This represents a 3.3-fold increase over the previous year, […]

Anthony Di Iorio, the founder of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada (BAC), has resigned from its position as Executive Director and member of the Board to focus on his businesses. He will continue to help support the organization in an advisory position. “I believe I’ve done my share of community building over the past 2 […]

The trend remains down. Reminder: Washington Post article (Feb. 3, 2014): ‘These four charts suggest that Bitcoin will stabilize in the future’ Still, the longer the Bitcoin economy grows, the greater confidence users will have in its continued stability. And that has important implications for Bitcoin users. One is that volatility doesn’t strike at random. […]

Since starting to accept Bitcoin earlier this month, Microsoft has not started offering Bitcoin acceptance globally, or for all of its products. Currently, users that wish to load their Microsoft accounts with Bitcoin are limited to $1,000 a day and $5,000 maximum. Microsoft seems to be waiting for further clarification on Bitcoin regulation before moving […]

Bitcoin holds a lot of promise as a decentralized currency, but there are many technical issues to be tackled as adoption increases. No one knows this better than core developer Gregory Maxwell, who has been contributing to bitcoin’s software since the early days. A long time open-source and cryptography advocate, Maxwell was an early contributor […]

I see a lot of cryptocurrency-related press releases. I research many different crypto companies and coins. I comb through a lot of their websites and wikis. It’s part of the job. And about a month ago, Nxt started to stand out to me. The branding seemed consistent, yet somehow still decentralized. The apps just kept […]