Taproot Foundation Chicago Executive Director Elizabeth Schwan-Rosenwald said: “Technology is driving social innovation and impact in new and exciting ways. Kicking of 2014, Taproot is thrilled to be the recipient of an innovative collaboration between BitWall and the Chicago Sun-Time...
Brazilian hacker creates Twitter-like app shielded from NSA gaze Published time: January 14, 2014 14:39 Edited time: January 14, 2014 16:44 Get short URL Image from twister.net.co Trends NSA leaks Tags Bitcoin , Hacking , Social networks In a post-Snowden world where NSA surveillance ...
Years ago, I found myself sitting in law school in Moot Court wearing an oversized itchy blue suit. It was a horrible experience. In a desperate attempt to avoid anything like that in the future I enrolled in a tax course. I loved it. I signed up for another. Before I knew it, in addi...
The Chicago Sun-Times will soon test a new paywall system that accepts bitcoins as well as tweets from readers in return for access to content. On Feb. 1, The Sun-Times 's site will prompt readers to either donate to, in the form of bitcoins, or tweet about the Taproot Foundation . Th...
Coinbase co-founders Fred Ehrsam (left) and Brian Armstrong. Photo: Josh Valcarcel/WIRED Coinbase now handles bitcoin transactions for more than 19,000 businesses and 750,000 individuals. The tiny San Francisco startup offers various online services that help move the digital currency...
by Andrew Beaujon Published Jan. 14, 2014 12:07 pm The Domains The Chicago Sun-Times will test a “social paywall” Feb. 1. To access the site, “readers will be prompted to donate Bitcoins to or Tweet about the Taproot Foundation,” a group that says it “makes business talent available t...
Make fun of it all you like, but people are using Dogecoin way more than any other kind of cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin . Note that that's quantity of trades, not quality. All the bitcoins in the world are worth $10.1 billion, according to stats provided at Bitinfo . Dogecoin, wh...
Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency that started as a joke but has since gone on to play a far more important role than anyone could've predicted, is on a total tear in transaction volume. There are more Dogecoins in existence than there are all other cryptocoins combined. According to this ...
Muchas veces nos referimos a bitcoin como un nuevo tipo de moneda. Pero puede que sea mejor pensar en sus unidades como fichas virtuales en lugar de monedas físicas o billetes. Sin embargo, al igual que todas las monedas, su valor está determinado por la cantidad de gente dispuesta a ...
As it turns out, when Chuck Norris tells you to cease and desist, you do. Norris Coin , the latest Bitcoin alternative (altcoin) was set to hit the Internet at 10pm Eastern Time on January 14. But it appears that Norris Coin is no more. Further Reading Coinye fights back against Kanye...
Bitcoin was designed to be a currency free from the corrupting influence of government or any other centralized authority. Now, though, with the value of a single electronic unit hovering around $1,000, the battle to control emission of Bitcoins is on. The developers of Bitcoin create...
Hoy en día ya podemos irnos al espacio pagando en bitcoins. Jorge Ordovás , Responsible for Financial Services development en Telefónica En el año 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto (seudónimo que todavía no se sabe si atribuir a una o varias personas) diseñó un protocolo para pagos electrónicos,...
He's not trying to make a buck, he's trying to make a point. But in a little over a week, a programmer named "Hendo" has created the most valuable digital currency in the world. It's called 42Coin, and one of them is already worth 1,000 Bitcoin, according to Cryptsy, which added the d...
Coinye never seemed like a serious endeavor from the start, but it points to the almost limitless potential for alternative currencies now that bitcoin has become a phenomenon. Bitcoin was launched in 2009, and last year its profile grew exponentially. After starting the year off belo...
More Android apps may soon have built-in support for Bitcoin payments thanks to a new partnership between Coinbase and BitMonet. The companies have released a software development kit (SDK) that aims to make it easy for Android developers to build apps that process Bitcoin payments. I...
The Chicago Sun-Times, the ninth-largest newspaper in the country, is trying out a Bitcoin paywall. Starting Feb. 1, for 24 hours, readers will be able to donate some amount of Bitcoins, or confirm that they've Tweeted about a nonprofit called The Taproot Foundation, to access the sit...
venture capitalists have become so intrigued with Bitcoin over the past year or so is because it is what the industry refers to as a “disruptive technology.” Some of the key tenets of a disruptive technology are that it allows people and businesses within a certain industry (or indust...
Miguel Freitas Photo: Enrico Marone When mass political protests erupted throughout Brazil in June, Miguel Freitas did what countless others did: He followed the news on Twitter. Tweets revealed information he couldn’t get anywhere else, including the mainstream media. “Brazilian medi...
What’s the easiest way to get bitcoins into your wallet? Answer: Get paid in bitcoin. BitPay , the world’s largest digital currency payment processor, now lets employees do that with the beta release of its Bitcoin Payroll API for employers. “For the longest time the hard question was...
As the bitcoin economy expands, so do the number of ways to gain exposure to the all-conquering cryptocurrency. Public equity markets are still a popular and convenient way for many retail investors to park their cash. Here’s a list of five (OK – four and a quarter, accounting for the...
More Android apps may soon have built-in support for bitcoin payments thanks to a new partnership between Coinbase and BitMonet. The companies have released a software development kit (SDK) that aims to make it easy for Android developers to build apps that process Bitcoin payments. [...
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