Audio: NPR Morning Edition - Is Online Gambling Legal Because Bitcoin? NPR aired a Morning Edition segment with host Cyrus Farivar (@cfarivar ) in which Jerry Brito (@JerryBrito ) was interviewed about online gambling and Bitcoin. Excerpt: “The U.S. Justice Department has made it very...
GoWest - Bitcoin in 2012: By the Numbers GoWest (@GoWestBTC ), blogging on TheBitcoinTrader.com, shows some metrics describing where Bitcoin shined in 2012. Excerpts: “The current market cap is actually at a peak for 2012, exceeding the spike in August. This can be attributed to the f...
Minorman on SeekingAlpha - Best Currency In 2012 Enginner and PhD student Minorman summarizes Bitcoin developments in 2012 with a blog post on SeekingAlpha. Excerpts: “[Bitcoin] gained 1400% against the USD last year - and this same currency is again - by far - the best performing cur...
Video: FreedomsPhoenix - Interview w/ Roger Ver, Tuxavant & Jonathan Logan In three, one-hour segments, Internet radio host and Libertarian Ernest Hancock (@FreedomsPhoenix ) interviews BitcoinStore’s Roger Ver, Tuxavant, and Showlife.cc’s Jonathan Logan. - http://bit.ly/VELbwS (Web p...
Bitcoin Magazine - Common Misconceptions About Bitcoin A new post on Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine ), which earlier this month underwent a change of ownership, clears up some misconceptions surrounding Bitcoin. Excerpts: “Bitcoin does not have a central organization or authority....
Grant Proposals - 50 Days Until First Quarter 2013 Deadline The Bitcoin Foundation (@BTCFoundation ) is soliciting grant proposals to further its mission to standardize, protect, and promote Bitcoin. The first grant submission deadline is February 15, 2013. In the first two months fol...
Video: Zach Harvey at Bitcoin Summit 2012 Zach Harvey (@ManchFu ) describes what Bitcoin offers him as a small business owner with a global customer base. Excerpts: “After receiving numerous orders that were scam orders, I now can only accept PayPal and credit card sales to a small nu...
Sober Look - 2012 winner for the best performing currency While the Mexican peso and the Polish zloty had a good year, there was one currency that outperformed them all — by an order of magnitude. That’s no secret to those reading this, but it will be to reader’s of Sober Look (@Sober...
Jon Matonis - Fear Not Deflation Forbes contributor and Bitcoin Foundation board member Jon Matonis (@JonMatonis ) shares the argument by Austrian economists that price deflation is nothing to fear. Excerpts: “Deflation is not a problem in the traditional monetary system and it will n...
“In what could be best described as an odd screed against Bitcoin and its potential financial impact on the world, it delves into places that paint the cryptocurrency as a boogeyman while at the same time reporting on money laundering occurring in current banking industry.” - “Sanati ...
TheNextWeb - The future of money: New paradigms Joel Falconer (@JFalconer ), editor at TheNextWeb wrote on The future of money — covering Square, Simple, and Bitcoin. Excerpts: “There’s another kind of player in this new game, too. It’s one that has been greeted with the most skeptici...
Joe Cascio - Review of Coinbase Joe Cascio (@JoeCascio ) describes in a blog post reasons why Coinbase is reporting an “overwhelming response” to their wallet and exchange service. Excerpts: “I have found it to be the simplest, lowest cost, if not the fastest alternative for online pu...
Businessweek - Dollar-Less Iranians Discover Virtual Currency Businessweek writer Max Raskin shares how there are a number of ways that Bitcoin is a value transfer system unlike any other. Excerpts: “There’s one currency in Iran that has kept its value and can be used to purchase good...
“Projected to take place on Wednesday [November 28, 2012] at around 18:00 UTC, for the first time ever in Bitcoin history, the rate at which new bitcoins are generated will permanently be cut by a factor of two,” - “[The block reward earned by miners is] the only way that new bitcoins...
Bitcoin Money - Counterfeit Bills A Risk For Local Bitcoin Trading In a post on the Bitcoin Money blog, (@BitcoinMoney ), the risk of trading bitcoins and potentially ending up with counterfeit banknotes is described. Excerpts: “There has been a rise in the number of counterfeiting in...
“The response [from Wikipedia] was as follows: ‘The Foundation does not currently accept Bitcoin or other currencies not backed by the full faith and credit of an issuing government.’” - “By using a Bitcoin merchant processor […] Wikipedia never even holds or handles a single bitcoin....
Jon Matonis - Why Support The Bitcoin Foundation Bitcoin Foundation board member and Forbes contributor Jon Matonis (@JonMatonis ) in a post on the Bitcoin Foundation’s forum gives reasons for individuals and organizations to support the Bitcoin Foundation (@BTCFoundation ). Excerpts:...
Adrianne Jeffries - Miner problem: big changes are coming Adrianne Jeffries (@ADRJeffries ), writer for TheVerge, provides a summary of the one-two punch facing Bitcoin miners. Excerpts: “O’Shea’s backyard [Bitcoin mining] operation brings in about $3,000 a month, he estimates, althou...
Bitcoin Money - Berlin Becomes Latest ‘Bitcoin Hotspot’ Bitcoin’s progress is occurring in geographic areas where clusters of Bitcoin enthusiasts exist. A post on the Bitcoin Money blog (@BitcoinMoney ) highlights some of these clustersand describes Bitcoin’s potential. Excerpts: “Whi...
Douglas French - Currencies of the Future Douglas E. French, senior editor of the Laissez Faire Club (@LaissezFaireBks ) is the latest to take notice of the ECB policy brief Virtual Currency Schemes and describes good reasons Bitcoin deserves the attention it is getting. Excerpts: “Th...
Matthew Elias - Bitcoin Blackmail Plot Thickens Matthew Elias, Director and Founder of the Cryptocurrency Legal Advocacy Group (CLAG), writes on the latest developments in the Romney Tax Return Blackmailing. He describes ways in which Bitcoin poses a challenge further in way that have...
It's Here - Bitcoin Friday, Nov. 9th, 2012 The first significant cross-vendor promotion of merchants who accept Bitcoin payments is underway. Bitcoin Friday is a one-day sale event at many Bitcoin merchants as a unified attempt at advertising Bitcoin businesses. Over 65 businesses are...
ShadowLife - The long-term success of Bitcoin ShadowLife, a community focused on the protection of privacy, has a post describing what Bitcoin needs to succeed in the long-run. Excerpts: “If you combine all black markets of the world together you’ll get a 10 trillion US$ economy, seco...
Bitcoin Money - ECB Report And Response Roundup There’s been quite a flurry of responses to last week’s policy brief on “Virtual Currency Schemes” published by the ECB. A list of these, compiled by Bitcoin Money, includes posts on ZeroHedge, a post by Jon Matonis on Forbes.com, BitIns...
Bitcoin Money blog (@BitcoinMoney ) gives a monthly wrapup on Bitcoin for the month of October, 2012. Excerpts: “The closing price of $11.20 USD was down more than a dollar from the previous month’s close resulting in a nearly 10% drop for the month. For 2012, where the price opened a...
Jon Matonis - In Iran, Bitcoin Software Not Available Jon Matonis (@JonMatonis ), contributor to Forbes and board member of the Bitcoin Foundation, writes on the restrictions that limit the availability to the Bitcoin.org client for those in Iran. Excerpts: “The regular people of Iran...
“Bitcoin is about preventing monetary tyranny. That is its raison d’être.” - “A powerful instrument is needed to prevent a corresponding repression — State monetary supremacy. That task has fallen to an unlikely open source project that is based on cryptography protocols and peer-to-p...
Scientific American - Bitcoin Gains Momentum Morgen Peck (@morgenpeck ) writes again on Bitcoin, this time in an article on Scientific American which brings that readership up to speed. Excerpts: “Ever so slowly, merchants seem to be warming up to Bitcoin, according to Tony Gallippi, ...
Bitcoin Money - Ding, Ding, Ding! James Turk Gets It! GoldMoney founder James Turk (@GoldMoneyNews ) shares his interview with Félix Moreno de la Cova (@flix1 ) on YouTube in which Bitcoin was the topic. Excerpts from the Bitcoin Money blog post on the interview and other related deve...
Bitcoin Magazine - Ogrr Merges with MMOExchange, Quintuples Userbase Vitalik Buterin wrote an article for Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine ) on the recent merger between MMOExchange and Ogrr. Excerpts: “Ogrr, with 3611 users currently, will be merging in 14643 users of MMOExchange, ...
