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- Why the surge in Bitcoin?Bitcoin soared over $450 for its first time this year according to the Coin Desk Bitcoin Price Index today. This movement represents an eighty-eight percent increase since October 4.What is causing the demand for bitcoin? Chinese trading has been...
- White House arms law enforcement to fight against BitcoinThe Obama administration is taking aim at virtual currencies like Bitcoin as it forms an alliance with private companies. The goal of the alliance is to train law enforcement officials about how virtual currencies work. This will help them...
- The blockchain alliance against criminals and terroristsGovernment agencies and private groups are working to defeat the tainted view of bitcoin and other digital currencies as funding for criminal and terrorist activity. Coin Desk announced today that the Blockchain Alliance has been formed to open a...
- Titles for entrepreneurs and high tech afficiandosA number of new nonfiction titles deal with the high tech world and the rise of entrepreneurs."Insight Out" (Harper One, $26.99) by Tina Seelig is a book advising rising entrepreneurs how to make their ideas become realities. She traces...
- Experts say don't stick a fork in bitcoin just yetIf 2013 and 2014 was a period of soaring interest and investment in the digital currency of bitcoin, then 2015 will go down as the year of sharply reduced expectations. But a number of technology experts, investment firms, and even the world&rsquo...;
- Blockchain is the future for a universal cashless systemChief advisor to US Presidents, Dr. Harald Malmgren, forecasts blockchain will be the technology driving the future of a “universal cashless system” for world banks according to Coin Desk. He served as an advisor to Presidents John F....
- Gavin Andresen speaks about the Bitcoin XT forkDuring the past week there has been controversy in the Bitcoin community concerning the software changes coming to increase the number of transactions that the Bitcoin protocol can process. TechCrunch this past Saturday posted Bitcoin is a...
- Blockchain is the power source for the futureBitcoin, the cryptocurrency of money changers worldwide, is possible due to blockchain technology. When it is leveraged by banks and other institutions it is a powerful defense system according to Thomas Dapp of Deutsche Bank posted Coin Desk...
- Venture capital arrives to Airbitz bitcoin wallletVenture capital investments in bitcoin and blockchain technology have reached $800 million since 2012 and there is $380 million pledged in rounds for 2015 according to Coin Desk yesterday. A portion of the VC monies has already arrived in San...
- Airbitz brings OpenBazaar decentralized market to San DiegoGreece continues its financial struggle today posted The Guardian. Prime Minister Tsipras faces a loss of trust from creditors and Eurozone.Germany is considering a bailout yet to be determined as nineteen Eurozone ministers meet today in Brussels...
- The case for gold Part 1When reading the financial press, the amount of coverage one sees on the topic of precious metals, is almost nonexistent. Most pundits don’t care for the metal, nor do they understand it. In fact, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke...
- Coinbase reveals the four types of bitcoin usersCoinbase, one of the largest exchange markets used by American bitcoin owners and traders, has revealed the four primary types of users of it's service, revealing, in a way, the state of the bitcoin marketplace.The first is "people who...
- Synereo, the world's first decentralized social networkWhile Iran’s Al-Alam Twitter account and its YouTube network were still off-air on Monday due to the disruption by Saudi Arabia on Sunday, it displayed a temporarily out of service screen on its website. I continued my interview with Synereo...
- Synereo builds the world's first decentralized social networkPro-Saudi hackers have seized Iran's TV social media accounts according to Pys.Org on Sunday. Synereo, Ltd. offers an alternative option to hacking and seizure through building a decentralized and distributed social network that plans to...
- Bitcoin's processing platform is starting to go mainstreamWhile the U.S. electronic payments industry gears up for its long overdue shift this year to more secure credit and debit cards, a significant transformation in the financial world is quietly taking place behind the scenes. The growing use of...