An Interview With Jeffrey Smith, CIO of GHash.io

For the past two weeks, the Bitcoin community has been buzzing with worry over the mining pool GHash.io. Founded in July 2013, the pool has quickly risen to become the world’s largest Bitcoin mining group, prompting concerns that they will use their control over the network for  malicious purposes (most worrisome would be a so-called…

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Swiss regulators allow SBEX to launch Bitcoin ATM network in the country

Switzerland will soon have its own Bitcoin ATM network thanks to the company SBEX, which recently received approval from the Swiss regulators to install the machines in the country. The approval became public shortly after the publication of a report announcing that the authority had shut down a different operator called Bitcoin Suisse AG only a…

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Family of Four Travels Across the Country Solely Living Off Bitcoin

JUNE 20, 2014 — NEW YORK, NY — Catherine Bleish, well-known blogger at TheBitMom.com and personality across the Bitcoin community, is taking her family of four on an “uncoinventional” journey, using only Bitcoin. Named the Uncoinventional Living Tour, the family has been on the road for nearly one week and has used the digital currency…

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On Mining

Decentralization, n. The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK and maybe not have not yet decided to collude with each other. There has been a large amount of ruckus in the past week about the issue of mining centralization in the Bitcoin network. We…

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On Mining

Decentralization, n. The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK and maybe not have not yet decided to collude with each other. There has been a large amount of ruckus in the past week about the issue of mining centralization in the Bitcoin network. We…

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All About Brawker with Cyril Houri

Most of the times I introduce bitcoins to people who don’t know about it, they invariably reply: “Where could I use them?” I would usually reply  “at any merchant that accepts bitcoins.” But now I’m able to reply “Anywhere”. The next question most people ask is “But where do I get bitcoins in the first place?”…

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Bitcoin Protection from Bank Raids and Kleptocracy

Latest cash grab It was reported in the Australian news source news.com.au that the Australian government arbitrarily voted itself the rights to close and confiscate bank deposits if left idle for only three years. Some are starting to wonder if this kind of Kelptocracy is just the beginning.  This netted the government $360 million dollars as…

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