On the blog of Peter Vessenes's Bitcoin Foundation Gavin Andresen offered an outline of measures he would like to see to improve the ability of Bitcoin to scale in the future, and one measure he proposes is a hard fork over blocksize. The measures mentioned include: Continue reading
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Bitcoin Prices Dip Under $300, Rebound
Bitcoin prices hovered around $300 today for several hours as a substantial ask wall was placed on Bitstamp at exactly $300. The ask wall's life came to an end with an intense 10 minutes and three million dollars of trading captured on video.
2 Bitcoin Users Who Decided To Break Bad
A British woman, convicted of purchasing poison via the Internet but cleared of attempted murder, says she was inspired by AMC's Breaking Bad. Continue reading
American Green To Continue Bitcoin Vending Machine Rollout
Taking credit cards is a proposition that some marijuana dispensaries cannot accept. This has forced many of them to remain a cash only business, something which has its own set of problems. This is an issue that the ZaZZZ machine from American Green hopes to solve. Continue reading
Silk Road Lawyers Challenge Justice Department "Leaky Captcha Theory"
The defense team for Ross Ulbricht is challenging the assertion by the prosecution in a filing last month that the Silk Road servers and eventually the alleged Silk Road mastermind was found due to a leaky misconfigured captcha on the site. Among the documents released challenging the Government's assertion are configuration files and traffic logs according to Brian Krebs.
Is This 3rd Time Lucky For Andreas M Antonopoulos?
"Mastering Bitcoin", a new book that will "tell you everything you need to know about joining one of the most exciting revolutions since the invention of the web" has been completed and sent to the publisher1 for production. Continue reading
O'Reilly. ↩
Breakout Gaming Release BRO Coin Details
Breakout Gaming, a startup that plans to offer poker, blackjack, slots and fantasy sports amongst other casino type games, have revealed details of its BRO Coin which will be the coin of choice for betting on the site1. Continue reading
Bitcoin may be deposited but must be exchanged for BRO in order to place a wager ↩
mSIGNA Bitcoin Wallet To Debut This Weekend
Described as the first scalable multisignature account management system, Ciphrex will release its latest product, mSIGNA, at the Inside Bitcoins conference1. Ciphrex's co-CEO and CTO, Eric Lombrozo, will also give a talk2 to coincide with the latest release. Continue reading
Bank of Portugal Concerned About Bitcoin ATM Launch
Coinciding with the launch of Portugal's first Bitcoin ATM, the Bank of Portugal warned consumers about the risks of using virtual coins declaring that "virtual currencies are not safe" as they are not supervised or regulated by any central entity in Portugal or the European Union itself. Continue reading
Altcoin Exchange Cryptsy Partners With Vogogo And Digital BTC
Transacting with various banking and fiat payment systems to date has proven difficult for the altcoin exchange Cryptsy, which wants to offer their users a seamless exchange between altcoins and fiat currencies such as USD. In order to do this, Cryptsy has entered into a contract with Vogogo which will provide the popular altcoin exchange with full risk management, security and compliance which might allow it to overcome the common hurdles facing businesses in this sector. Continue reading