Today, WordPress, an extremely popular blog hosting site and framework and the 22nd most accessed site in the world, has announced that they are going to be accepting Bitcoin as a method of payment. The press release reads: “at WordPress.com, our mission is making publishing democrati...
Bitcoin IS being used to sell illegal drugs on sites like Silk Road. However, illegal goods other than drugs – including assassinations, child pornography and even guns, are NOT gaining significant traction. The black market website Silk Road made considerable news a few months ago wh...
Radical politics and economics has always been one of the Bitcoin community’s interests, and so many people would benefit from taking a closer look at these two organizations’ work. The general category of the P2P ideology’s politics can be described as libertarian – a word which appe...
There are good reasons to be concerned about this kind of institutional attention; even if it has little effect on Bitcoin directly, there is reason to believe that many businesses are holding out on accepting Bitcoin because they are waiting for official acceptance. BitPay’s Tony Gal...
BitFloor and Bitcoinica Refunds Showing Signs of Progress The Bitcoin exchange platforms BitFloor and Bitcoinica, the two largest institutional victims of digital theft in Bitcoin history , have finally shown their first signs of genuine progress toward repaying their clients. On Octo...
As many have predicted was an inevitable future, the man known only as Pirateat40 on bitcointalk.org announced the closure of his investment service , the Bitcoin Savings & Trust, earlier today, citing complications in performing larger transactions as the primary reason. The interest...
While the rest of the Bitcoin community was celebrating Bitcoin Friday by taking advantage of the large discounts made available by their favorite Bitcoin shops, Joerg Platzer of Room 77 , a restaurant that has become the epicenter of the Bitcoin community in Berlin, used the date to ...
TorrentLeech.org, a torrent tracking service with a massive 500k userbase, is now accepting and even encouraging Bitcoins as donations and in exchange for VIP accounts. TorrentLeech believes that “Bitcoin payments safeguard your privacy and protect your anonymity,” and are “strong bel...
