New BTC-O-MATIC vending machine arrives in Amsterdam

Amsterdam was already a Bitcoin-friendly city, but the new cryptocurrency ATM in town will surely improve this status. The machine, manufactured by the startup company BTC-O-MATIC, can be found at the coffee shop Courtyard of Wise, located near the Amsterdam Centraal station. Courtyard of Wise The information was recently revealed by the website CoinCourant.nl. The firm is currently developing…

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World’s first Bitcoin Job Fair hits California in May

The Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California (United States), will soon host the first Bitcoin Job Fair. The event is scheduled for May 3rd and is expected to attract several hundred attendees. The organisation of the job fair is being handled by Coinality, a platform where employers and job seekers can connect for…

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Crossing Borders for Bitcoin

People usually immigrate to a new country for a variety of sociopolitical reasons, most of which can be summed in the big, capital letter kind of ideas: Freedom. Opportunity. Wealth. Prosperity. To that list I would like Bitcoin and Litecoin. Yes, people are crossing borders for these cryptocurrencies, but it’s not for the reasons you…

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France will tax Bitcoin earnings but the rules don’t apply to everybody

Ministry of Economy and Finance France might not be ready to recognize Bitcoin as a form of currency, but the country is apparently ready to tax the revenue generated by cryptocurrency transactions. The information was recently revealed by the French Ministry of Economy and Finance.  However, according to the country’s law, the rules are not black and…

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A Message to the Class of 2018: Consider Cryptocurrency

By April 15, which was a few short days ago, most high school seniors had already submitted their statement of intent to register (SIR) to the college of their choice. Since then, they have turned their eyes toward the fall semester and what they will elect to study there. This decision, of course, is not…

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Web 3.0 – A Chat With Ethereum’s Gavin Wood

Six months ago Ethereum was an ambitious white paper committed to a thorough re-imagining of the ‘Bitcoin 2.0’ space. With a sincere desire to mould the blockchain in his own image Vitalik Buterin, our resident tech. wizz, penned the concept. Since inception the project has benefited from some key strategic partnerships and an unparalleled press…

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Jeff Garzik wants to protect Bitcoin and its network… in space

It is one small step for the BitSat project, but one giant leap for Bitcoin. Jeff Garzik’s Dunvegan Space Systems and the company Deep Space Industries Inc. just signed a preliminary design contract to develop a Bitcoin-related orbital system. The first payment to the space contractor was made in digital money via the payment processor BitPay. The…

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