Rep. Steve Stockman: New York regulations could crush bitcoin industry
Texas Republican Congressman Steve Stockman is enthusiastic about bitcoin. Since announcing his bid for the senate to unseat incumbent John Cornyn, his campaign has incorporated bitcoin into its...
View ArticleWikipedia is accepting donations in bitcoin
If you wish to support Wikipedia you can now do so with bitcoin. The online encyclopedia announced in a blog post that it is accepting bitcoin contributions to help support the Wikimedia Foundation....
View ArticleOverstock.com will be paying their staff bonuses in bitcoin
Overstock.com, the online retailer who is leading the pioneers today in accepting bitcoins from customers, is in the midst of planning to offer its employees bonuses paid out in bitcoin. This has been...
View ArticleRussia may be on the verge of banning bitcoin, again
The bitcoin situation in Russia has left many wondering as to what exactly is going on. Earlier this year, the Russian government and central bank noted that bitcoin and other digital currencies would...
View ArticleSecurity report identifies bitcoin as a major target of financial malware...
A new security report published by Kaspersky Lab found that bitcoin is the objective of more than one-fifth of all financial malware attacks. The report entitled “IT Threat Evolution Q2 2014” (PDF)...
View ArticleNasdaq Exec: Winklevoss bitcoin ETF is a significant innovation in ETF market
The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust is in the midst of regulatory approval and it could be fully approved by the end of this year. Operating a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), each share will account for...
View ArticleLondon could become the epicentre of the bitcoin industry
First it was the Netherlands. Then it was the Isle of Man. Now it may be the United Kingdom. British policymakers are compiling a new report in order to review the possibility of transforming the...
View ArticleOverstock.com CEO expects bitcoin sales to add 4 cents per share to its earnings
Soon after Overstock.com became one of the first major online retailers to accept bitcoins the website has experienced tremendous financial success since then. Its decision to incorporate the digital...
View ArticleCFPB warns consumers you are on your own if using bitcoin, digital currencies
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its first consumer alert regarding bitcoin, dogecoin and other digital currencies last week. The federal agency listed a number of issues that...
View ArticleAustralian Tax Office (ATO) confirms bitcoin is not a taxable currency
After months of back and forth consumers alerts and tax notices, the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has finally confirmed in a guidance report Wednesday that peer-to-peer decentralized digital currencies,...
View Article7 Reasons to Keep Calm and Bitcoin On
1. It’s not Paper The national debt would take well over 2,000 years to pay off if the United States paid off 16 million dollars a day without adding any new debt. Knowing this, it can safely be...
View ArticleAmagi Metals Drops U.S. Dollar in Favor of Bitcoin
Bitcoins for gold? That has become one of the latest trends among precious metals dealers that wish to profit off of the popularity of the peer-to-peer decentralized digital currency and seek to gain...
View ArticleU.S. District Judge Thinks Bitcoin Qualifies as ‘Money’, ‘Funds’
A U.S. District Judge in a case involving a Florida man, Robert Faiella, allegedly participating in a scheme to sell approximately $1 million worth of bitcoins to Silk Road users is making headlines in...
View ArticleMark Karpeles Alleged Bitcoin Scammer Launches Web Hosting Service
Mark Karpeles, the discredited and humiliated CEO of the now bankrupt Mt. Gox, appears to have established a brand new web hosting service, and has apparently steered clear of the peer-to-peer...
View ArticleBitcoin Could Lose Half its Value Facing Coordinated 51% Attack
Speculation that the Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) Project is planning something big; possibly a 51% attack, may becoming a reality. The project’s members might be planning to start larger blocks of bitcoin...
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