Robocoin Now Requires All ATM Operators to Collect Customer Information

Robocoin has announced that it will now require all of its bitcoin ATM operators to collect customer information in an effort to comply with know-your-customer (KYC) regulations.The Las Vegas-based company reported the decision was made under the direction of its legal team, which advised the startup that as a registered money services business (MSB) it could no longer process anonymous financial transactions.In its full remarks, Robocoin asserted...

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Silk Road 2.0 Seized, Alleged Operator Unmasked in FBI Crackdown

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) together with the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York have announced that they have arrested Defcon, the operator of illicit black market website Silk Road 2.0.Authorities allege that 26-year-old San Francisco native Blake Benthall was arrested yesterday in his home city, and that he will appear in federal court today. At press time, the Silk Road 2.0 marketplace was no longer operational,...

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Swarm Demo Day 2014 Round Up

by Ruben Alexander on November 6, 2014 { } Swarm represents a unique opportunity for anyone to take part with their bits to bitcoin and support new and interesting projects. We will include the stories related to Swarm’s Demo day here:Demo Live Stream Autonomous DronesSwarmOps JudoBaby DDPCoinspaceBy Ruben Alexander The Bitcoin community has shown me that nothing can stop a group of people who are passionate in their beliefs. In our case, we believe...

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‘Bitcoin is Teaching Realism to Libertarians': An Interview With Old-School Cypherpunk Vinay Gupta

As an old-school cypherpunk in the 1990s and one of the most active members of the E-gold community before this centralized precursor of Bitcoin got shot down, futurologist Vinay Gupta has been involved with digital currency for over fifteen years. He has also worked with the United States Departement of Defence on disaster relief and state failure issues, and helped develop CheapID, a genocide resistant biometric ID card for the NSA. He later turned...

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The Bitcoin Wonder Woman: An Interview With Lisa Cheng

I met Lisa at Porcfest this year and she seemed like a great person who loved Bitcoin. It wasn’t until we recently chatted that I started seeing her name pop up everywhere, advising certain next generation projects and writing a slew of whitepapers. This is why I’ve dubbed her the Bitcoin Wonder Woman. The questions literally leap between each of the projects she’s involved in so bear with me. She’s currently involved in Gems, Coinkite, and FACTOM,...

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ChangeTip Introduces ‘Tip.Me’ – the Easiest Way to Tip. Ever.

ChangeTip Introduces ‘Tip.Me’ – the Easiest Way to Tip. Ever. LAS VEGAS, Nov. 4, 2014 – At Money2020 today, San Francisco-based micropayments leader ChangeTip announced their new Tip.Me tipping platform. Tip.Me enables users to tip other users instantly, for free, and is seamlessly integrated into their current ChangeTip product. Until today, ChangeTip has leveraged popular social networks like Reddit and Twitter; with the introduction of Tip.Me,...

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The New Frostwire

Remember FrostWire (BitTorrent client)? They’ve completely transformed their platform and are integrating Bitcoin into their system.While at a Bitcoin conference I met Angel Leon, a project lead for FrostWire. Bitcoin, he mentioned to me, has caused a resurgence of excitement in the open-source movement.Angel is also working hard on the OpenBazaar Project.I asked him some questions about everything from Bitcoin, to FrostWire, and OpenBazaar.Kevin...

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