Bitcoin Book Seeks to Debunk Myth with Math

The latest book by financial crime journalist and fiction author Jeffrey Robinson is making its way around bitcoin missionaries, mercenaries and visionaries following its release last month.BitCon: The Naked Truth About Bitcoin is a critical evaluation of the fantasy and fallacy of the dreamers and journalists that brought bitcoin to notoriety. Its reporting covers all manner of bitcoin debate – the currency, the commodity, the technology, the crime,...

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Digital Currency Summit Andorra: Bitcoin in the banking nation

Last September 17th to 19th, the Digital Currency Summit was celebrated in Andorra, the small country placed three hours away from Barcelona; it was a three day debate forum which treated topics like the use and importance of cryptocurrencies for banks, governments, investors and general public. In order to achieve that goal there were organised conferences and debates around four threads: “Introduction to Digital Currencies,” “Investment opportunities,”...

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An Interview with Roger Gabriel of bitINKA

Roger Gabriel has four years of experience working in a financial division of IBM in Argentina and 5 years working on e-commerce businesses. He is launching a Bitcoin trading platform that is easy enough for anyone in South America to use. Ruben Alexander: How did you get started with Bitcoin? Roger Gabriel: On bitcoin itself around July of last year, I read a lot about the currency and it intrigued me. Made my first purchase of around 0.25 BTC and...

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PeerTracks: Paradigm Shift In Music World

The time has come for starving artists to finally make real money from their music. As the Internet disrupted the way record labels make their money, the blockchain is taking this another step by threatening to render them useless. PeerTracks is matching the artist up with the audience and allowing them to both make money, all the while spreading knowledge of the blockchain to the mainstream.I got a chance to speak with Cédric Cobban, the individual...

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Encrypted Chat Apps: Which is Best?

It’s been said that sending an email is like sending a postcard—you should assume that it’s viewable by many others. While this is true, it’s only true because trusted third parties—that is, the email providers—have been discovered to either be viewing message contents themselves, or revealing them to additional third parties (e.g. governments or advertisers). It’s a classic result of the “problem of trust.”For those of us who value privacy (and...

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Bitcoin is Not Backed by Anything (And That’s OK!)

Whenever you hear, “That currency is not backed by anything!,” it’s almost always meant as criticism. Hard-money enthusiasts are quick to point out the horrible track record of fiat currency. Nearly without fail, currencies “backed by nothing” get heavily devalued through inflation, and they often collapse within decades.The best solution, so far, has been to tie currency to a commodity whose supply can not be arbitrarily inflated by governments...

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Press Release: Polish company first in the world to sell shares for Bitcoins

A Polish company, InPay S.A., is the first in the world whose shares are available for purchase in public offering using the digital currency Bitcoin. The sale has just launched on the equity crowdfunding site Beesfund.com.Equity crowdfunding is simply raising capital thanks to the online community. Unlike the reward-based crowdfunding, made popular by sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo or RocketHub, in equity crowdfunding people who are involved...

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21 Top Bitcoin and Digital Currency Companies Endorse New Digital Framework for Digital Identity, Trust and Open Data

MIT Media Lab Spin-out ID3 Spearhead Group to Build an Open SourceSecure and Trusted Platform to Advance Global Digital Currency Transactions Group to Advance Global, Industry-wide Initiative Based on Windhover Principles Media Contact:Chris CarletonCHEN PR for ID3m: 857.891.2989o: 781.672.3115ccarleton@chenpr.comCambridge, MA (October 20, 2014) – ID3 (Institute for Data Driven Design), a research nonprofit founded out of the MIT Media Lab, today...

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Bitcoin… We Are All The Blockchain

Bitcoin… we are all the blockchainSince the first great jump in Bitcoin’s exchange rate in early April 2013, speculative trade has stolen the limelight as the main Bitcoin story. Tweets of “To the moon!” echo like a rallying cry, selling what amounts to a collective vision statement. But what’s the vision? A respected VC assures us it’s “still headed to 10k” as if Bitcoin was a prize thoroughbred being written down by the Bookies, but still had a...

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Gems Bitcoin App Lets Users Earn Money From Social Messaging

A new social messaging app is aiming to disrupt the established social media business model through the power of crypto 2.0 technology. If big social media companies make money by monetizing data, the Gem project asks, shouldn’t users also profit from the service?Launching today at Inside Bitcoins Tel Aviv, Gems is seeking to uncover whether consumers can be compelled to change the way they view their relationship with social media, and in the...

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