Mycelium: The Definitive Android Wallet

Actually, in a society based in the instantaneity and movability of information, the adoption of a technology depends, totally, on its capacity of adaptation at this exigencies.One of the most important strategies for best Bitcoin adoption is the smartphone wallets that give to people and business the possibility of making a transaction anywhere with an accessible and popular technology: basically, an app and a smartphone; this is more similar to...

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Video: Roundup of This Week’s Bitcoin News 9th May 2014

Some good news from America, and (unsurprisingly) some more bad news from China. Find out what’s happened in the world of digital currencies this past week.BitPay plans to display prices in bits: The Georgia-based merchant processor BitPay has announced plans to display BTC prices in bits. The company’s move follows a community discussion about bitcoin’s current denominations being too complex for mainstream users.Vaurum raises $4m in seed funding:...

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Survey Finds Silicon Valley, Wall Street Bullish on Bitcoin

A new survey published by the SecondMarket-owned public investment fund, Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT), suggests that as the general public learns more about bitcoin, overall optimism about its future financial applications is likely to improve.The survey garnered responses from more than 1,000 individuals, including those from the Wall Street, Silicon Valley and bitcoin communities. The results detail how the respondents first learned about bitcoin...

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Chinese Exchange Huobi Considers Future As Bitcoin Marketplace

Amid ongoing uncertainty regarding their ability to continue operations, the top executives of five major China-based bitcoin exchanges abruptly cancelled scheduled appearances at this weekend’s Global Bitcoin Summit.The move, a response to continued pressure from the People’s Bank of China, however, is unlikely to have a significant impact on what has become a core problem for these businesses – that the country’s central bank is looking to limit...

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Fortress CIO Mike Novogratz Explains Why he is Bullish on Bitcoin

Fortress Investment Group CIO Mike Novogratz is bullish on bitcoin. Why? The digital currency is attracting some of the smartest people around, he says.In an interview with Bloomberg TV from the 2014 Sohn Investment Conference in New York, and reported by Business Insider , Novogratz argued that bitcoin is attracting some serious talent, including some of the brightest programmers on the face of the planet.Furthermore, there is a lot of smart money...

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Ripple’s Susan Athey: Too Much Focus on Bitcoin Exchange Rate

TechCrunch is currently hosting its Disrupt NY 2014 conference, spiced up with a hackathon and an interesting ‘battle’ between 30 start-ups. Of course, no disruptive tech event would be complete without digital currencies, so TechCrunch obliged.Ripple’s Susan Athey and Blockchain’s Peter Smith took to the stage at the event to share their thoughts on cryptocurrencies and the current state of bitcoin.Media obsessionAthey cautioned against the media’s...

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