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

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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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The Seattle “Bitcoin4biz” Payment Summit and Bitcoin 2.0

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  Many individuals just discovering bitcoin have a hard time wrapping their head around the concept of the blockchain and “Bitcoin 2.0.” The uses of the blockchain expand into more applications than money. These include storing any records, DACs (Decentralized Autonomous Corporations), and for the first time ever in human history, the ability to create…

 
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Dogecoin Does Games Best

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Dogecoin Games Dogecoin was only a newborn pup six months ago. A big congratulations to the Dogecoin community. The coin has come far in this short time. It seems like an eternity. Such is the skewed nature of crypto-time. The space develops at such breakneck speed. It really needs its own calendar. Blink and you’ll…

 
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Public Money: Avoiding Its Privatization

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This story is in issue 20 In my pocket, I have an old leather wallet. It contains enough banknotes to buy a brand new wallet of a better model I saw in a magazine. This buying power belongs to just me: I am the only one who can use those notes to buy anything. Likewise,…

 
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B.J. Guillot for Congress Now Accepting Bitcoin Donations

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Washington State’s congressional candidate B.J. Guillot announced last week that his campaign would now be accepting Bitcoin donations via BitPay. The Republican has been a staunch supporter of Bitcoin since 2013 and attained his first bit of the digital currency in May of the same year. Guillot has since advocated for the use of Bitcoin…

 
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Cryptocurrency: Fundraising Evolved

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If you read my previous articles about energy companies in the crypto space and a bank-free investment company, you might have noticed a growing trend. Most of the energy companies were using cryptocurrency to enhance fundraising efforts, and I also talked about crowdfunding. Although Bitcoin was inarguably designed to revolutionize currency, its initial appeal was largely as…

 
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US Consumer Bureau promises to watch Bitcoin more closely

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The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has pledged to follow Bitcoin and other digital currencies more closely. The order came from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). According to the Daily Herald, the office, considered the investigative arm of Congress, wrote a confidential report back in May where it instigates the bureau to be more active…

 
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Weekly Round Up: Newegg accepts Bitcoin, Russia considers crypto-laws and Coinbase launches Vault

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Welcome to Bitcoin Examiner’s new weekly round up featuring the most important news from the past seven days. Buy art with cryptocurrency at Cointemporary The art lovers/Bitcoiners out there have a new online place that suits all their needs. Cointemporary claims to be the first online art gallery to work exclusively with cryptocurrency. The platform, described as a “temporary…

 
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Coinbase makes Bitcoin transactions safer with new “vault” service

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Coinbase has just launched a new service that aims to boost its online wallet’s security levels. The Bitcoiners will soon be able to use the company’s free Vault service as a savings account protected by additional transaction time and more steps for verifying transactions. The launching of the optional service, called Coinbase Vault, happens after several cases…

 
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Russia considers regulating Bitcoin to avoid crypto-crime escalade in the country

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The Central Bank of Russia announced this week that the institution might take the next step and regulate digital currencies in the near future to guarantee that the misuse of Bitcoin and other altcoins is punished in the country. Georgy Luntovsky, the bank’s first deputy chairman, admitted that “one shouldn’t reject these instruments, perhaps they really…

 
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