. I created an account using an Android Bitcoin client and held up its QR code to the Raspberry Pi-based device's optical scanner. After I fed in a $20 Federal Reserve Note, I got back a confirmation QR code on its display, which I then scanned and checked the third-party confirmation...
Bitcoin, the currency that exists exclusively online, is poised to get more of a physical presence, thanks to a small bartop machine that a couple of New Hampshire entrepreneurs have designed. The Bitcoin ATM, as pictured above by CNET , is designed to turn your cold hard cash into Bi...
Zach Harvey has an ambitious plan to accelerate adoption of the Internet's favorite alternative currency: installing in thousands of bars, restaurants, and grocery stores ATMs that will let you buy Bitcoins anonymously. It's the opposite of a traditional automated teller that dispense...
Twenty years from now, when the majority of your accumulated wealth is spread across a portfolio of Bitcoin accounts on servers around the world, you might have Zach Harvey and Matt Whitlock to thank. The New Hampshire-based entrepreneurs want to put Bitcoin—a form of digital currency...
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Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg The more I learn about Bitcoin, the more I support it. As I mentioned in a post late last summer, I think it represents another way to fight back against the current repressive and immoral monetary system that has a strangle hold on t...
If the encrypted algorithm holds up, Bitcoins is a game changer. Historically, any competition to the fraudulent and worthless federal reserve notes are shut down, run out of town, terrorized, and/or sent to jail by the secret service or federal bureau of incompetence. And what do the...
Just got this email from Namecheap after I posted my support for bitcoin: "We are in the process of intergrating BitCoin into Namecheap and we need some BitCoins for performing some tests. If you are interested in sending some BitCoins to us, we will be glad to credit your Namecheap a...
(a) I once posted a patch to change max block size, so I thought about this long before forum readers ever woke up to the issue, (b) I have since backed down from that radical position, (c) it seems likely that max block size will change sometime in bitcoin's future, (d) block size is...
With a number of countries still in limbo when it comes to online poker laws, most notably the United States, a new player has emerged to fill the void in the world of online poker: Bitcoins. Bitcoins is an e-currency that is attempting to tear down the usual methods of valuing and ex...
We've written a bunch about the disruptively innovative transportation company Uber , which has been running into regulatory issues with multiple local regulators. Andy Kessler recently had a fantastic interview with Travis Kalanick, Uber's CEO , concerning the regulatory battles he k...
The Bitcoin vs. gold debate frustrates me; these are incredibly valuable monetary tools, why should I limit myself to just one? Both these currencies share many characteristics that make them great …limited supply, internationally accepted, non-political, etc. but they are however, ve...
today, catching the Bitcoin investing community by surprise. Traders were quick to react, however, as the initial sale of 10,000,000 shares was rapidly bought up, putting 500 BTC in the hands of ZigGap's owners. In the last few weeks you may have noticed their advertisement on the rig...
Attendees at this year’s Liberty Forum 2013 event hosted by the Free State Project witnessed a fully working Bitcoin ATM prototype. Zach Harvey and Matt Whitlock started the New Hampshire-based venture, Lamassu Bitcoin Advisors , and they are hoping the new machine will help accelerat...
Jon Matonis - The Cashless Utopia Mirage Forbes contributor and Bitcoin Foundation board member Jon Matonis (@JonMatonis )’s latest blog post makes an argument defending the need for cash to remain as a way to pay. Excerpts: “Let’s not kid ourselves, because the end of money, as we kn...
“[This ATM is] the opposite of a traditional automated teller that dispenses currency. Instead, these Bitcoin ATMs will accept dollar bills — using the same validation mechanism as vending machines — and instantly convert the amount to Bitcoins and deposit the result in your account.”...
