En la actualidad, Bitcoin es la moneda digital más usada de todo el mundo[1] y hay buenas razones por las cuales se está haciendo cada vez más popular. Tanto usuarios particulares como vendedores y propietarios de negocios encuentran en Bitcoin importantes ventajas que les han llevado...
Multisignature Transactions – this is a technology that has been available for nearly a year and in the works since 2011 , but which has still seen no significant real-world application. While bitcoins sent to a normal Bitcoin address can only be spent by transactions signed by the on...
7 December 2012 Last updated at 17:07 GMT Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Virtual cash exchange becomes bank The deal means more protection for cash created by bitcoin dealing Continue reading the main story Related Stories Newzbin2 pirac...
A lot of people are busy trying to figure out how to make banks better. There is anger about what has gone on and puzzlement about the apparent inability of anyone to start doing something about it. Instead of rioting for change , we seem to be frozen in a technical discussion of bank...
Bob Stuart is being charged with promoting illegal gambling over a commercial software program he licenses to online casinos and bookmakers. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired In a criminal case sure to make programmers nervous, a software maker who licenses a program used by online casinos...
It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI , the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as y...
“The current market cap is actually at a peak for 2012, exceeding the spike in August. This can be attributed to the fact that tens of thousands of Bitcoins have been introduced into the economy since August.” - “These have shown steady growth over the past year: The number of items l...
The budget deal reached at the beginning of this year extends an obscure but important tax break for U.S. banks that do business overseas, according to the FT . Under the "subpart F exception for active financing income" (rolls off the tongue, don't it?), income earned on certain tran...
A new Bitcoin exchange / leveraged trading service is set to launch in the coming weeks. Going by the name of "Kraken," it will be the first site to offer leveraged trading since the beleaguered Bitcoinica went offline last year. It will also be a Mt.Gox-like Bitcoin exchange. I had t...
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I've been thinking and talking about this and wondering if I'm blowing its potential impact out of proportion. What do you think? I heard about it on the video of Tony Gallipi's talk in the Philadelphia Bitcoin Summit 2012 and it is confirmed in Jan 13's 'Next Month' section of the ma...
The centerpiece of any Retail Bank strategy should be to protect the consumer relationship. If you “blew up” payments today and started from scratch, how would you redesign it? I agree with Ross Anderson (See KC Fed ) Ross Anderson “If you solve the authentication problem.. everything...
