Want to book a hotel room? Expedia is already accepting Bitcoin

Another big company just decided to accept Bitcoin as a payment option: we are talking about Expedia, the travel-booking platform based in Washington (United States). Starting this Wednesday (11th), Expedia’s customers can already book a hotel stay and pay for their reservation with cryptocurrency. The new payment option is available during the check-out stage, but…

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Introducing The Aegis Wallet

Bojan Simic, the founder of the Bitcoin Security Project, has released a new, free, and open source bitcoin wallet for Android called Aegis Wallet. The wallet supports multiple currencies and provides the user with the ability to view their transactions and addresses on the bitcoin blockchain. Aegis Wallet allows you to encrypt your wallet. If…

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First Bitcoin ATM arrives in Israel thanks to BITBOX

Tel Aviv is welcoming a special event this Wednesday (11th) evening. The company BITBOX is getting ready to launch Israel’s first Bitcoin ATM, a Robocoin machine that will allow the users to buy and sell cryptocurrency on the go. The device will be installed in the lobby of the Town-House TLV hotel, located on Yavne…

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Bitcoin Pay-Per-Character Publishing Platform Gathers Momentum

Bitcoin Megaphone, the world’s first Bitcoin-powered pay-per-character publishing platform, is poised to enter its third consecutive month with increased traffic and high user engagement. Bitcoin Megaphone was created as a side project by Mike Solomon in March of 2014. Mike Solomon lives in New York where he works as Digital Director for Glamour Magazine at…

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Twenty Questions to Test Your Bitcoin Knowledge. Beginner Level.

How does your bitcoin knowledge rank? Here are Twenty Test Questions to evaluate yourself. This is the first part of a three-part series that will test your knowledge of bitcoin greatness. This quiz will provide you a general measuring stick to gauge where you fit in the range of bitcoin knowledge. We trust you will take this quiz with the “honor code”. This…

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Bitcoin Coming to the Hester Street Fair

What was once the location of New York City’s largest pushcart market at the turn of the century has become one of the most popular street markets on the Lower East Side, known as the Hester Street Fair. In earlier times, the fair started out as a highly curated outdoor market and was the best…

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First French Bitcoin hackathon happens this weekend at La Maison du Bitcoin

With so many French Bitcoiners and cryptocurrency entrepreneurs thinking about developing software and services connected to the world of digital money, it’s no surprise that La Maison du Bitcoin decided to host the first ever French Bitcoin hackathon, to be held on June 13th, 14th and 15th. The brand new center located on 35 rue…

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Bitcoin Evangelist Jason King runs 3,237 miles to promote cryptocurrency

Creating and managing Sean’s Outpost, a cryptocurrency-based homeless outreach organization in Pensacola (United States), was not enough for Jason King. The Bitcoiner has decided to run 3,237 miles across the United States. And his adventure is almost over. After four months, Jason King only has around 30 more miles left to finish his run across the country,…

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