CeBIT Australia – Accepting Bitcoin

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CeBIT Australia, the country’s largest business technology event, is now accepting Bitcoin as payment using Australia’s leading merchant services provider BitPOS from 5-7 May at Sydney Olympic Park. Gilad Greenbaum, Business and Technology strategist for CeBIT Australia, says: “Bitcoin is an innovative technology that offers a fast, secure and cost effective form of online payment,” …

 
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MIT’s Bitcoin Expo and the Students Behind It

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MIT’s students have made the news again. Dan Elitzer, president and founder of MIT’s Bitcoin Club, and Jeremy Rubin, a sophomore in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, have organized the MIT Bitcoin Expo, which will be held this Saturday, May 3rd at MIT’s Compton Laboratories Building 26-100. The talks start at 12:00pm and will feature Gavin…

 
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Bitcoin gets important seal of approval: cryptocurrency price is now on Bloomberg

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Bloomberg LP has announced it will include Bitcoin prices on its financial data terminals. The decision is big news for the world’s most famous cryptocurrency and it has already sparked the interest of several American trading platforms, according to The Wall Street Journal. “Bitcoin may be the biggest technology innovation since the Internet or a fad…

 
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Menufy Integrates Bitcoin

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Menufy – latest food delivery provider to start accepting bitcoin. The site provides online ordering for restaurants across the US. Menufy has integrated with Coinbase. Users can now pay for delivery or takeout orders using Bitcoin. The site boasts close to 400 locations across the US and is constantly adding new locations. Menufy offers an online…

 
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Rise of the Altcoin Wars

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Rise of the Altcoin Wars The Past, Present and Future of Altcoins By Mark Rees The following article illiterates how survival of the fittest and game theory will likely halt bad altcoins from tricking people out of honest money. History: From the “Sacred text of Bitcoin” – Book of Mark, Chapter 1 verse 1 In…

 
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How One Company Simplified the Wallet Address

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There is a new wallet that has surfaced recently that allows users to send Bitcoin and many other digital currencies by using a web address. This new service, bitcoinwallet.com, gives users the ability to personalize their payment address in a manner similar to a Tumblr or hosted web address. The Bitcoin Wallet platform makes sending…

 
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Bitcoin Micropayments, a New Enabling Technology

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The two big pieces of Bitcoin are the currency and the network. The Bitcoin network enables electronic payments, not such a big deal really, there are lots of payment systems. However the Bitcoin network lets you transfer money (bitcoins) in an incredibly efficient manner, and one which is not dependent on any central control or…

 
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CoinMyne – Rethink the Way You Mine

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When it comes to mining, most people tend to focus on the hardware: how fast it is and how long until it becomes obsolete. As mining operations get larger and difficulty increases with ever faster hash rates, the ability to manage your operation becomes a more difficult task. Small adjustments to hardware or the ability…

 
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Mexico is loving Bitcoin: Fundación Satoshi Nakamoto and new exchange arise

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A new cryptocurrency exchange and the opening of the Fundación Satoshi Nakamoto, the newest affiliate of the Bitcoin Foundation, have officially turned Mexico into a (even more) Bitcoin-friendly country. “While governments around the world are trying to understand Bitcoin, Mexicans are using Bitcoin to purchase everyday necessities like food, clothing, and even healthcare”, the Bitcoin Foundation announced…

 
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