It is perhaps true right at this moment that the value of Bitcoin currency is based more on speculation than actual payment volume, but it is equally true that that speculation is establishing a sufficiently high price for the currency that payments have become practically possible. T...
I had posted yesterday a screen shot of a response I received from Vic Gundotra @ Google regarding Bitcoin, who then CC'd me to Sridhar Ramaswamy (Senior Vice President, heads up Google Wallet). I asked /r/bitcoin for suggestions that I should relay to these gentlemen regarding incorp...
Two Las Vegas casinos, the D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and Golden Gate Hotel & Casino, have announced they are accepting bitcoins, but don't expect to use them at the craps tables. Bitcoin will only be accepted at the front desk of the two locations, at the gift shop and at on-site resta...
The Internet is magic: Bitcoin Rap Genius goes from Andreessen tweet to reality in record time By Michael Carney On January 22, 2014 The Internet is a remarkable place. There’s a tool for every job and you can always find someone in the crowd willing to fulfill almost any wish – often...
Bitcoin is making an art critic out of the Swedish taxman. The largest Nordic economy is set to reject Bitcoin and its competitors as a currency and instead give the software the same tax treatment it would an antique Persian rug or a painting by Andy Warhol . “Currencies are traditio...
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A popular Reddit submission today suggested Google’s payment team was looking to incorporate Bitcoin, naturally sparking a lot of excitement in the virtual currency community. We reached out to Google regarding the claim and learned that it was indeed false. “As we continue to work on...
They have an independent streak. Hence in certain cities and markets, Bitcoin flourishes. In southern Berlin, for example, there is a neighborhood called Graefekiez, in Kreuzberg. It has the highest density of businesses accepting the currency in the world, according to The Guardian, ...
-Pemerintah beberapa negara seperti Korea Selatan, China, dan Singapura dikabarkan telah melarang peredaran mata uang digital bitcoin di negaranya. Sebab risiko dari Bitcoin masih sangat tinggi, di samping payung hukum yang belum jelas. CEO Bitcoin Indonesia Oscar Darmawan ternyata be...
The largest transaction ever completed in Bitcoin, the virtual currency that approximates cash on the internet, was for $1 million worth of computer hardware. That’s impressive for a currency that’s only been around since 2009, but Jack Sommer hopes to top it — by a lot. The casino ow...
Entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Wall Street say they don’t care much for Bitcoin as a currency to supplant the U.S. dollar . As a payment technology they could use to undercut Visa Inc. (V) , Western Union Co. (WU) or Citigroup Inc. (C) , they say they like it a lot more. As Bitc...
Bitcoin es la más conocida, pero en el ciberespacio existen decenas de monedas digitales. El equipo jamaiquino clasificado para las Olimpíadas de Invierno de 2014 -a realizarse en la ciudad rusa de Sochi a partir del 7 de febrero- logró recaudar US$25.000 a través de la moneda virtual...
Print Email Reprints Comment Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Google+ WASHINGTON A diverse group of entrepreneurs is trying to solve a riddle that may hold the key to Bitcoin and other digital currency moving into the mainstream: how to insure accounts. For all of the energy and innovation...
Marc Andreessen, web revolutionary and venture capitalist, wrote an essay for the New York Times called Why Bitcoin Matters . Glenn Fleishman, however, thinks he misunderstands and misrepresents key aspects of the payment system and its nature. Andreessen's right up to a point, Fleish...
-Penggunaan uang virtual Bitcoin makin meluas. Sebelumnya, Bitcoin bisa untuk menonton wanita telanjang di internet dan juga membeli tiket kompetisi basket NBA . Terbaru, Bitcoin juga bisa untuk berjudi di Las Vegas, AS. Ada dua kasino di Las Vegas yang menerima pemakaian Bitcoin untu...
While Wall Street is bearish on Bitcoin, Silicon Valley's romance with the crypto currency rages on. Venture capitalist and startup sage Marc Andreessen has taken it upon himself to explain the existence of--and his own excitement for--Bitcoin, and the companies popping up to facilita...
(Reuters) — Dos hoteles con casino de Las Vegas se convertirán en las primeras casas de juego comercial de Estados Unidos en permitir el uso del sistema de pago digital no regulado conocido como bitcoin, dijeron el martes funcionarios de casinos. Golden Gate Hotel and Casino y The D L...
Programmers famously have to balance their technical concepts with the needs of the human beings on which their projects rely. Too often, an engineer's tunnel-vision means they end up focusing on the stuff that can be fixed, and abstract away the rest. The latest example can be found ...
Bitcoin beberapa hari lalu tidak mendapat persetujuan dari Bank Indonesia (BI) sebagai alat transaksi pembayaran di tanah air. Mata uang digital ini dinilai tidak laik sebab tak memenuhi aturan yang ada. Tidak menyerah, pengagas Bitcoin Indonesia pun putuskan untuk sambangi BI . Merek...
Mircea Popescu. Image: Courtesy Mircea Popescu One of the world’s longest-running open source software projects will live on, thanks to a Romanian bitcoin baron. Recently, Theo de Raadt and the other engineers who oversee the OpenBSD operating system were hit with a $20,000 bill for t...
Two Las Vegas casinos have begun accepting the cyber-currency Bitcoin at shops, restaurants and hotels. The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and the Golden Gate Hotel and Casino, which are owned by the same company, began processing transactions through BitPay today. The US dollar remains the...
SÃO PAULO – Dois cassinos de Las Vegas vão se tornar os primeiros estabelecimentos de jogos dos Estados Unidos a permitir o uso do sistema não-regulamentado de pagamento digital bitcoin, disseram funcionários dos cassinos na terça-feira.
WHY PAYMENTS FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION HAVEN'T GONE MOBILE. While moving from paper tickets to mobile payments would improve efficiency and perhaps cut the costs associated with public transportation in the U.S., there are still two major barriers that are keeping smartphone payments ...
Mircea Popescu. Image: Courtesy Mircea Popescu One of the world’s longest-running open source software projects will live on, thanks to a Romanian bitcoin baron. Recently, Theo de Raadt and the other engineers who oversee the OpenBSD operating system were hit with a $20,000 bill for t...
A popular Reddit submission today suggested Google’s payment team was looking to incorporate Bitcoin, naturally sparking a lot of excitement in the virtual currency community. We reached out to Google regarding the claim and learned that it was indeed false. “As we continue to work on...
Bitcoin has triggered a wave of warnings from central bankers since the online currency started gaining, well, currency late last year. Now, it’s also behind a wave of tech startups aimed at building up a bitcoin infrastructure. Some 320 startups are now involved somehow in maintainin...
