Music streaming platform Grooveshark now accepts Bitcoin

Grooveshark just announced great news for the Bitcoin community: the online music streaming is now accepting cryptocurrency payments for its premium services. The platform – founded in 2006 in the United States and owned by the Escape Media Group – can be used for free, but to fully enjoy all Grooveshark’s features the users have to pay for…

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@Coin_Artist’s Latest Dark Wallet Puzzle And The 32 Page Solution

@coin_artist Hey @Coindesk @cryptobizmag @CoinTelegraph @BitcoinMagazine whose going to do a story on this? http://t.co/IhOw0XDfPW — TampaBay Bitcoineers (@TampaBayBitcoin) July 7, 2014 I have always been a fan of puzzles, but @coin_artist‘s latest cryptography mind benders were well beyond my reach. This complexity, however, is intended to force people to work together to achieve a…

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Q&A with GoCoin’s Steve Beauregard

I visited Los Angeles Bitcoin Incubator Bitropolis earlier this year, and I got to meet Steve Beauregard, the founder of GoCoin. While in his office in the scenic Santa Monica, CA,  I had a few questions for him– and he was kind enough to answer them. What is GoCoin and what do you guys do? GoCoin…

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BitPay launches new open-source Bitcoin wallet Copay with multi-signature feature

Based on the belief that “multi-signature technology will play an important role in helping people secure their Bitcoins against loss or theft”, the crypto-payments processor BitPay announced the launching of a new digital wallet called Copay. The open-source wallet was born out of BitPay’s “own need to securely store Bitcoins”, reads a blog published by…

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How an Economy Grows and Why it Doesn’t: A Review

This article first appeared in Issue 21: Bitcoin & Art A Book by Irwin Schiff I often cop a lot of flack for claiming that the fundamental laws of economics, like the laws of physics, are immutable. I stand by this statement because the basic principles of economics are based on scientific logic. The only reason…

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Major network with almost 5,000 payment terminals now sells BTC in Ukraine

A network of 4,900 BNK-24 terminals spread across Ukraine now allows the local users to easily buy Bitcoin in exchange for fiat currency. The network – operated by the Ukranian National Credit Bank – sells vouchers that the customers can later exchange for cryptocurrency with a new company called BTCU. The users have to deposit cash in one…

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Buy a car with your Bitcoins: vehicle marketplace Beepi adopts cryptocurrency

It is already possible to buy and sell a car using Bitcoin. The well-known peer-to-peer digital marketplace Beepi announced this Tuesday (8th) that it is now accepting cryptocurrency as a payment option. Besides, the company is also adding a new service: instant pre-approval for car loans.  Beepi, which is now accepting Bitcoin thanks to a partnership with BitPay,…

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