Archive for October, 2015

The following video was published by corbettreport on Oct 31, 2015On this month’s edition of “Questions For Corbett” James fields your questions on anarchism, free banking, bitcoin, veganism and much more.

Strap in, friends, bitcoin is back. After spending most of the year in something approaching the doldrums, the cryptocurrency is enjoying a strong price rally, pushing it to its highest value of 2015. Of course, trading for around $320 per coin is still a mere fraction of its former heights. But at the same time, […]

Bitnation, an ambitious project for the decentralisation of governance using blockchain technology, is offering victims of the current refugee crisis an emergency digital ID and a bitcoin visa card to receive funds from family in the absence of a bank account. Susanne Templehof, founder of Bitnation, explained the Blockchain Emergency ID is a rudimentary emergency […]

Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price has been in good spirits these days, as it has taken out one resistance level after another. Price made a quick short-term retracement before revving up for another ride north, setting its sights on the rising channel resistance. Increased bullish momentum could keep bitcoin price climbing, possibly until the […]

Nick Szabo, who designed an early Bitcoin-like digital currency called “bit gold,” made an appearance on Thursday at the D Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada for the Bitcoin Investor Conference 2015. Szabo, in his speech, made it clear he understands the uncertainty in the price of Bitcoin. That’s why he wants to bring […]

Based and started in Austin, Texas, Ucontrol.tv allows people to send Bitcoin (minimum deposit of 0.001 BTC) to three buckets, each associated with their own address. Each bucket supports a different charity; UControl. TV introduces another unprecedented usage case for Bitcoin. Disclaimer: This article was provided by Bitcoin PR Buzz. Bitcoinist is not affiliated with […]

Payza was an early mover among “legitimate” money transfer services with regard to integrating Bitcoin payments, and as CCN reported about a year ago, one of the first to allow it both ways. You could deposit Bitcoin for sending payments and then receive payments in Bitcoin as well. The service appears to still be operational, […]

Following the recent spike in bitcoin trading volume and price, shares of Grayscale Investment’s Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT) surged to US$32 per share, marking a 10.92% increase over the past few days as well as an almost ten times increase in volume. BIT, the publicly tradable shares of bitcoin operating under the ticker GBTC, was […]

There sees to be no limit to the upside potential we are seeing in the bitcoin price at the moment. Fundamentally, there have been no real developments (nothing that differs from the usual bitcoin news updates, at least) and so the momentum we are seeing looks t be purely sentiment driven. People are finally coming […]

Bitcoin security platform BitGo announced the launch of the first automated open source Key Recovery Service (KRS) software that allows generating, securing and storing private backup keys, which should make it one of the most secure Bitcoin vaults in the world. A major problem Bitcoin wallet users encounter is the security of the keys. While […]