Bitcoin is on Speed

Eight hours of sleep is too long to be disconnected from the ever-changing crypto landscape. Currency urgency permeates business dealings, investor interests and journalistic pursuits. We are literally involved in a world that is changing at a truly phenomenal rate. Try to keep up, will you? The Speed of Business If “The Social Network” taught…

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Twenty Mind-Bending Secrets About Bitcoin

This article will introduce some of bitcoin’s Mind-Bending amazing abilities only few people know. As you read this list, remember your favorite so can impress your friends with your new incredible bitcoin knowledge.   1.  Fun with programmable money     Bitcoin wallets are like personal debit cards that you can create and assign yourself to store your bitcoin.…

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Putting the Blockchain to Work For Science!

Buried beneath the myriad of indistinguishable pump-and-dump altcoins, every now and then a cryptocurrency is born that truly revolutionizes the field. While this doesn’t necessarily obsolete Bitcoin–the protocol can be upgraded at any time–it’s important to examine these new coins in order to keep up the pace of innovation. Take Gridcoin, for example. Some background:…

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BloomNation – Disrupting the Flower Industry

Businesses that accept Bitcoin are blooming up everywhere. Sometimes it can irk me that some businesses accept Bitcoin but do nothing to promote it; however, this is not the case for the co-founders of the budding flower marketplace, BloomNation.com. I spoke with two of the co-founders, Farbod Shoraka & David Daneshgar; unfortunately their other co-founder,…

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Bitcoin 2014 Roundup

Well I attended Bitcoin 2014 in Amsterdam and it was a blast. I met lots of people who I’ve been emailing/skyping with over the last six months so that’s always fun. The conference had a few keynote talks for all and all the rest was broken out into four parallel tracks, which is always annoying…

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Inside Bitcoins Conference Heads to Asia

As Bitcoin is becoming a household name around the world, the Inside Bitcoins Conference series is hosting conferences around the world with the next stop in Hong Kong on June 24-25. Mediabistro issued the following press release: Inside Bitcoins Conference Heads to Hong Kong to Demystify the Myths and Spur Wider Adoption of Bitcoin Across Asia…

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San Jose Earthquakes are the newest Bitcoin-friendly professional sports team

The San Jose Earthquakes have partnered with Coinbase in order to become one of the world’s first professional sports teams to accept Bitcoin payments in their stadium. The first crypto-experience will happen next Sunday, 25th May, when the American team plays against the Houston Dynamo. The team’s fans will be able to use Bitcoin to pay for…

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All About AirBitz With Paul Puey

Don’t you wish there was a resource that knew all the businesses that accept Bitcoins in your area? WelI I had a chance to talk to Paul Puey, the CEO/ Co-Founder of Airbitz, a Bitcoin wallet and business directory that does just that. Their web-based business directory went online on Mar 17. The iOS app…

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